Watch List notes:

KINGS of CAPPADOCIA. Ariarathes VII Philometor. Circa 107/6-101/0 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.63 g, 12h). In the types of Antiochos VII of Syria. Mint A (Eusebia-Mazaka). Struck circa 107/6-104/3 BC. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ APIAPAΘOV ΦIΛOMH-TOPOΣ, Athena Nikephoros standing left; monogram above A to outer left, O to inner left, Λ to inner right; all within laurel wreath. Lorber & Houghton Series 1, Issue 1, 8 (A3/P2 – this coin); Simonetta 1; Simonetta, Coins, p. 35 note 1; Callataÿ pl. 44, P = Mørkholm, Coinages I pl. 42, 14 (same dies); HGC 7, 828. Toned, trace deposits, some marks and scratches on obverse. Good VF. Very rare, one of nine published tetradrachms of this type in the name of Ariarathes.


From the Weise Collection. Ex Lanz 125 (28 November 2005), lot 439.