Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 514. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of CAPPADOCIA. Ariarathes IX. 101-87 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.21 gm, 1h). Mint A (Eusebia-Mazaka [Caesarea]). Dated RY 2 (100/99 BC). Diademed head right / BASILEWS ARIARAQOU EUSEBOUS FILOPATOROS, Athena standing half-left, holding Nike in her right hand, shield and spear in left; B (date) in exergue. Simonetta 3 (same dies as plate coin, attributed to Ariarathes V); Mørkholm, "The Coinages of Ariarathes VIII and Arirathes IX of Cappadocia," Essays Robinson, pg. 246, 5 (A1/P8) = SNG von Aulock 6300 (this coin); cf. DeCallataÿ pg. 200-201, pl. XLIV, Q (same obverse die); BMC Galatia pg. 33, 1 var. (date; Ariarathes V); SNG Copenhagen 136 (Ariarathes V). Good VF, toned. ($2000)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts XXV (29 November 1990), lot 182; von Aulock Collection, 6300; Abruzzi 1954 Hoard (IGCH 2056).