Apparently Unique

380, Lot: 305. Estimate $200. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos IV Epiphanes. 175-164 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 16.97 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos, testing arrow, resting hand on bow; to inner left, facing bust of Helios; monogram in exergue. SC 1505.3 var. (monogram retrograde); HGC 9, 615h; Dr. J. G. Bunge Chevetogne, “Zu einer seltenen Münze Antiochos’ IV. Epiphanes aus Seleukeia am Tigris” in NumCirc LXXXIII/2 (February 1975), p. 65 (this coin). VF, toned, some roughness. Apparently unique example with the monogram in retrograde.