CNG 87, Lot: 622. Estimate $750. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos IV Philopator. 187-175 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.88 g, 12h). Ptolemaïs (Ake) mint. Struck circa 180-175 BC. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos, testing arrow, hand on bow; palm frond to outer left, AB monogram to inner left, IA in exergue. SC 1331a; Le Rider, Séleucos 85 (D1/R2); HGC 9, 580h. Good VF, struck with slightly worn obverse die, double struck on reverse. Rare.