Two Rare Cilician Mint Tetadrachms

CNG 90, Lot: 696. Estimate $400. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos IX Eusebes Philopator (Kyzikenos). 114/3-95 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.20 g, 12h). Uncertain mint in Cilicia. Struck circa 114/2-112 BC. Diademed head right / Athena Nikephoros standing left, resting hand on shield, and propping spear on her arm; two monograms to outer left; all within wreath. SC 2360.2; HGC 9, 1228e. VF, light porosity. Very rare.