Extremely Rare Dated Askalon Issue

Triton XVI, Lot: 556. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos IX Eusebes Philopator (Kyzikenos). 114/3-95 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 13.88 g, 12h). Askalon mint. Dated SE 200 (113/2 BC). Diademed and draped bust right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY ΦIΛOΠATOPOΣ, eagle standing left on thunderbolt, palm frond over right wing; to left, AΣ above dove standing left above (ΠΛ monogram)A; Σ (date) to right. SC 2395.2 corr. (monogram); Spaer 16–7 corr. (same); CSE –; SNG Spaer 2752; HGC 9, 1236; DCA 290. Good VF, toned, some porosity, die break and light scratch under tone on obverse. Extremely rare.

From a Continental Collection, purchased privately in 1989.