CNG 85, Lot: 489. Estimate $1000. Sold for $3100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos IV Philopator. 187-175 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.58 g, 12h). Ptolemaïs (Ake) mint. Struck circa 180-175 BC. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos; palm frond to outer left, monogram to inner left, IA in exergue. SC 1331a; Le Rider, Séleucos 85 (D1/R3 – this coin, illustrated); HGC 9, 580h. Good VF, toned.

Ex Lebanon, 1989 Hoard (CH IX, 507 corr. = SC II App. 3, p. 102).