149, Lot: 256. Estimate $200. Sold for $195. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAPPADOCIA, Caesaraea-Eusebia. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tridrachm (22mm, 10.74 g). Dated Cos. 6 (AD 112-114). Laureate bust right, slight drapery on far shoulder / DHMARC EX UPATOC, distyle temple with eagle in pediment; cult image of Artemis of Perge within. Sydenham 190a/190; SNG ANS 1160 var. (draped) (Bostra); W.E. Metcalf, "The Tell Kalak Hoard and Trajan's Arabian Mint," ANSMN 20 (1975), 3 var. (same) (Bostra). VF.

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Harmer Rooke (4 October 1972), lot 312.

Kindler, in The Coinage of Bostra p. 97, argues against Metcalf’s re-attribution of this type to Bostra, which is based solely on the few examples found in the Tel Kalak hoard. Kindler sees no connection of the type with Bostra. It is not found in hoards from the Cappadocia region, so a final determination remains uncertain.