Ex Abramowitz and Seyrig Collections
Published by Le Rider

CNG 109, Lot: 281. Estimate $5000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos IV Epiphanes. 175-164 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33mm, 16.65 g, 11h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Series 3, struck 168-164 BC. Bearded head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY ΘEOY EΠIΦANOYΣ NIKEΦOPOY, Zeus Nikephoros seated left; no control marks. SC 1398; Le Rider, Antioche, Series IIIA, 235 (A23/P167) = Mørkholm Series III, 14, dies A21/P89 (this coin); SMA 63; HGC 9, 620a; CSE 106 = Pozzi 2963 (same obv. die); SNG Spaer 1003 (same dies). Good VF, attractive cabinet tone. Rare.

From the MNL Collection. Ex Abramowitz Family Collection (Superior Galleries, 8 December 1993), lot 303; Münzen und Medaillen AG XXXII (20 October 1966), lot 144; Henri Seyrig (1895-1973) Collection.