Triton XIX, Lot: 289. Estimate $5000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos IV Epiphanes. 175-164 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 15.72 g, 1h). 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 1399; Le Rider, Antioche, Series IIIA, 266–71 var. (A28/P– [unlisted rev. die]); Mørkholm Series III, 14, dies A26/P– (unlisted rev. die); SMA 63; HGC 9, 620a; BMC 22 (same obv. die). EF, lightly toned, a touch of die wear, a few minor marks. Well centered. Rare.