Ex Abramowitz Family Collection

CNG 109, Lot: 340. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos IX Eusebes Philopator (Kyzikenos). 114/3-95 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 15.99 g, 12h). Tripolis mint. Dated SE 205 (105/4 BC). Diademed head right within fillet border / Athena Nikephoros standing left; two monograms to outer left, rose to lower inner right, [HΣ (date) in exergue]; all within laurel wreath. SC 2383; HGC 9, 1233; DCA 284. VF, old collection tone, a few marks, area of flat strike. Very rare, SC notes four examples, the present coin is the only example in CoinArchives; the only other example traced to a sale was lot 351 in Leu 15 that sold for 12,000 CHF.

From the MNL Collection. Ex Baldwin’s 80 (8 May 2013), lot 2035; Abramowitz Family Collection (Superior Galleries, 8 December 1993), lot 375.

Rouvier noted an example in his collection (no. 1632) that he thought was undated. The note to SC 2383 explains that this was likely a mistake, that Rouvier’s coin was likely worn or the date was off the flan. The present coin has old toning, and the date is obscured, which suggests, based on the rarity of this issue, that this coin may be the Rouvier example.