Sale: CNG 60, Lot: 902. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 May 2002.  Sold For $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleukid Kings. Antiochos IV. Posthumous Issue, dated year 167 (146/145 BC). AR Tetradrachm (15.19 gm). Antioch mint. Diademed head right / Zeus seated left, holding Nike and sceptre; ZXR and O(?) in exergue. SNG Spaer 1594 var. (same obverse die, monogram at knee); Mørkholm, "A Posthumous Issue of Antiochus IV of Syria," in NumChron 1960, pg. 26 (A1/P-); Houghton, CSE, 210/211 var. (same obverse die as 210). VF, some surface roughness and light scratches. Rare. ($300)