Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 724. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $375. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Arados. Circa 138/7-44/3 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.09 g, 12h). Dated CY 196 (64/3 BC). Turreted, veiled, and draped bust of Tyche right / Nike advancing left, holding wreath and palm frond; in left field, date above Aramaic H above AN; all within wreath. Duyrat 3923 (D89/R187 – this coin); Rouvier 325α; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC 272. Good VF, attractively toned, hairline flan crack.

From the Dr. Jörg W. Müller Collection. Ex Elsen 91 (24 March 2007), lot 146; Auctiones 13 (23 June 1983), lot 379.