Triton XX, Lot: 349. Estimate $5000. Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Tryphon. Circa 142-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31.5mm, 15.57 g, 12h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ TPYΦΩNOΣ AYTOKPATOPOΣ, spiked Macedonian helmet with cheek guards, adorned with wild goat’s horn above visor; monogram to inner left, ΔH below; all within oak wreath. SC 2031.3c; SMA –; CSE 257 var. (letters below helmet); SNG Spaer –; HGC 9, 1055; Pozzi 2996 (same dies). Near EF, toned, a few marks, double struck on reverse.

Ex Elsen 93 (15 September 2007), lot 365; Auctiones AG 22 (16 June 1992), lot 363.