Sale: CNG 61, Lot: 827. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 25 September 2002.  Sold For $420. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleukid Kings. Antiochos IV. Posthumous Issue, dated year 167 (146/145 BC). AR Tetradrachm (16.74 gm). Antioch mint. Diademed head right / Zeus seated left, holding Nike and sceptre; monogram at knee, ZXR and monogram in exergue. SNG Spaer 1593 var. (monogram); Mørkholm, "A Posthumous Issue of Antiochus IV of Syria," in NumChron 1960, 3 (A1/P3); Houghton 209 var. (same). Lightly toned, good VF, hairline flan crack behind head. Rare. ($400)