175, Lot: 106. Estimate $150. Sold for $230. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos IV Philopator. 187-175 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 4.15 g, 1h). Antioch mint. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos, testing arrow and holding bow; palm branch and wreath to outer left, FI in exergue. Le Rider, Antioche 7-8 (A2/P3); SMA -; SNG Spaer 844 (same dies); Houghton -. VF, toned. Very rare.

Ex Harry Strickhausen Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 73, 13 September 2006), lot 448.

Le Rider identified two varieties of drachms at Antioch, both having the same types but different control markings. In contrast to the Antiochene tetradrachms, these drachm issues must have been rather limited, as each has only one obverse die. Moreover, Le Rider found only eight specimens total of either variety, and the present coin is the third, and finest of its particular variety.