CNG 88, Lot: 459. Estimate $500. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos IV Epiphanes. 175-164 BC. Æ (32mm, 38.35 g, 12h). “Egyptianizing” series. Antioch mint. Struck 169-168 BC. Laureate head of Zeus-Serapis right, wearing tainia with Osiris crown at tip / Eagle standing right on thunderbolt. SC 1413 (this coin referenced); HGC 9, 643; CSE 119 (this coin). Good VF, dark brown patina with some earthen encrustation around the devices, some light scratches on the reverse where some earthen encrustation has been removed.

From the Sierra Collection. Ex David Freedman Collection (Triton V, 15 January 2002), lot 1492; Arthur Houghton Collection.