Triton XVIII, Lot: 155. Estimate $3000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos IV Epiphanes. 175-164 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.91 g, 12h). Ptolemaïs (Ake) mint. Struck circa 167-164 BC. Head right, wearing diadem terminating in stars; monogram behind / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY ΘEOY EΠIΦANOYΣ NIKEΦOPOY, Zeus Nikephoros seated left; palm frond to outer left, monogram in exergue. SC 1476.1f; Mørkholm 9 (obv. die A5 [unlisted for group 9]); Rouvier –; HGC 9, 620c; Sunrise 196 (this coin). EF, darkly toned, very minor deposits on reverse.

From the Sunrise Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 133 (11 October 2004), lot 269.