Rare Ariarathes Drachm

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 284. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of CAPPADOCIA. Ariarathes I. 333-322 BC. AR Drachm (5.29 g, 11h). Gaziura mint. B’L GZYR (in Aramaic), Baal of Gaziura seated left, torso facing, holding grapes, grain ear, and eagle in right hand, lotus-tipped scepter in left / ARYORT (in Aramaic), griffin left attacking stag kneeling left. Simonetta 1b; Babelon, Perses 388; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock 6255; Traité II 669. Good VF, minor flat spot on obverse, reverse a little off center. Very rare.