One of Two Known

Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 3092. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos VI Dionysos. 144-142 BC. AR Drachm (3.91 g, 1h). Tarsos mint. Struck circa 143/2 BC. Diademed head right / Sandan standing on the back of a horned and winged creature advancing right; monograms to outer left and right. J. Seeger, “An unpublished drachm of Antiochus VI,” NC XII (1972), p. 305 (this coin); Lanz 74, lot 265; otherwise unpublished. Fine, toned, flan crack. Extremely rare, one of two known.

From the John A. Seeger Collection.