200, Lot: 97. Estimate $100. Sold for $145. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos IV Epiphanes. 175-164 BC. Æ 13mm (3.36 g, 1h). Antioch mint. Struck 175-circa 173/2 BC. Veiled and diademed bust of Laodike IV right / Head of elephant left; [tripod] behind. SC 1407; cf. SNG Spaer 970-2 (control-mark uncertain). Near VF, hard dark green patina, light earthen deposits.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.

Coins of this type were originally minted at Antioch with a serrate edge (as this specimen), but this practice was abandoned in favor of a straight edge (see the following two lots), probably very early in the reign of Antiochos IV. Similar coins with a monogram behind the bust of Laodike minted at Akko-Ptolemaïs maintained the serrate fabric (see lots 110 and 111 below).