Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 504. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of CAPPADOCIA. Ariarathes IX. 101-87 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.73 gm, 2h). Mint A (Eusebeia-Mazaka [Caesarea]). Dated RY 2 (100/99 BC). Diademed head right / Athena Nikephoros standing half-left; date in exergue. Simonetta 3 (Ariarathes V; same obv. die as plate coin); Mørkholm, Coinages p. 246, 5 (A1/P5 ­ this coin [incorrect weight listed]); SNG Copenhagen 136 (Ariarathes V; same obv. die); SNG von Aulock 6300 (same obv. die); cf. DeCallataÿ p. 200-201, pl. XLIV, Q (same obv. die). Good VF, darkly toned. ($3000)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Triton II (1-2 December 1998), lot 460; John Work Garrett Collection (Leu & Numismatic Fine Arts, 16-18 October 1984), lot 283; J. Hirsch XXXII (14-15 November 1912), lot 579.