Watch List notes:

KINGS of CAPPADOCIA. Ariarathes I. 333-322 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 5.33 g, 6h). Gaziura mint. Baal of Gaziura seated left, torso facing, holding grapes, grain ear, and eagle in extended right hand, lotus-tipped scepter in left; B'L GZYR (in Aramaic) to right / Griffin left attacking stag kneeling left; [Ariarathes (in Aramaic) below]. Simonetta 3a; Simonetta, Coins 1c; HGC 7, 791 var. (no inscription on rev.). Good VF, toned, struck from slightly worn dies. Well centered and struck for issue. Very rare.


From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Gorny & Mosch 212 (5 March 2013), lot 2206.