CNG 108, Lot: 347. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos VII Euergetes (Sidetes). 138-129 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.09 g, 1h). Phoenician standard. Sidon mint. Dated SE 175 (138/7 BC). Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing left; palm frond over far shoulder; to left, EOP (date) above monogram; to right, ΣIΔΩ above aphlaston. SC 2102.1a; Rouvier 1252; HGC 9, 1073; DCA 197. EF, lightly toned.

From the MNL Collection, purchased from Apollo Numismatics, 5 May 2011.