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Apparently Unique

421, Lot: 312. Estimate $300.
Sold for $240. 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.


From the MNL Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 380 (10 August 2016), lot 305.