Rare Antiochos the Child Tetradrachm

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 585. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $4800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos, son of Seleukos IV. 175 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.46 g, 12h). Antioch mint. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos; tripod to outer left, Δ in exergue. SC 1369c; Le Rider, Antioche 20 (A1/P11 – this coin). Good VF, find patina. Rare.

Ex Sternberg XXII (20 November 1989), lot 130.