Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 979. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of CAPPADOCIA. Ariarathes V Eusebes. 163-130 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.13 g, 12h). Mint A (Eusebeia-Mazaca). Dated RY 31 (132 BC). Diademed head right / BASILEWS ARIARAQOU EUSEBOUS, Athena Nikephoros standing left; monograms to outer left, inner left, and outer right; AL (date) in exergue. Simonetta 2 var. (Ariarathes IV; year 30; same obv. die as plate coin); SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; SNG von Aulock 6263 var. (same; same obv. die). Good VF, toned, slight surface roughness. A splendid Hellenistic portrait. Very rare issue, unpublished for regnal year 31. ($5000)