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CNG 108, Lot: 346. Estimate $500.
Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos VII Euergetes (Sidetes). 138-129 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.49 g, 2h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Diademed head right / Athena Nikephoros standing left, resting hand on shield, and propping spear on her arm; to outer left, mint monogram above Π; all within wreath. SC 2061.1o (this coin illustrated); Lorber, Die, Group 1, 23 (A7/P2 –this coin, illustrated); SMA 277; HGC 9, 1067d. Near EF, lightly toned, overstruck on uncertain type.


From the MNL Collection. Ex Rauch 98 (21 September 2015), lot 168; 2005 Unknown Findspot (‘Antiochus VII posthumous’) hoard (CH X, 288), Lot 4, inv. cc49684.