From the Gemini IV Auction, Closed January 8, 2008.
Lot # 211 - Estimate: US$75000 / Unsold: 

CAPPADOCIAN KINGDOM. Orophernes. (160-156 BC). Silver tetradrachm 
(16.82 gm). , Dated year 2 = 98 BC. Diademed head of Orophernes 
right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΟΡΟΦΕΡΝΟΥ ΝΙΚΗΦΟΡΟΥ, Nike standing left, crowning 
royal name with right hand and holding palm branch in left, in inner 
left field owl standing three-quarters left on altar above ΜΗΧΡ 
monogram. H. Salvesen, “The tetradrachm of Orophernes,” in 
Nomismatika Khronika 21 (2000), pp. 8–16. Simonetta p. 29, 1 (same 
obverse die). Gulbenkian 1018 (same obverse die). Regling, Priene, 
44–45. 

Ex Richard Winokur Collection. 

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