Le Rider Plate Coin

406, Lot: 470. Estimate $200. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos V Eupator. 164-162 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.71 g, 12h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Diademed head right / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; ΔI to outer left. SC 1575.9; Le Rider, Antioche 242 (A18/P178 - this coin, illustrated); HGC 9, 752. VF, toned, a few deposits. Rare control mark, five tetradrachms noted by Le Rider, only one in CoinArchives.

From the George Bernert Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (18 July 1973), lot 271.