Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 216. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of CAPPADOCIA. Ariarathes I. 333-322 BC. AR Drachm (5.37 g, 12h). Sinope mint. Head of nymph left, hair in sakkos, wearing triple-pendant earring and necklace; aplustre before, MO behind / Sea-eagle standing left, wings spread, on dolphin left; Ariarathes in Aramaic below. Simonetta p. 15; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen (Paphlagonia) 290; SNG BM Black Sea 1459 = BMC Pontus p. 96, 9; RG p. 199, 36. Near EF, lightly toned, a few light marks in fields. Very rare.

Simonetta mentions these drachms in the text describing the coins of Ariarathes I, but does not list them in his catalog.