Triton XVIII, Lot: 170. Estimate $30000. Sold for $27500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Tryphon. Circa 142-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33mm, 16.64 g, 12h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ TPYΦΩNOΣ AYTOKPATOPOΣ, spiked Macedonian helmet with cheek guards, adorned with wild goat’s horn above visor; monogram to inner left; all within oak wreath. SC 2030a; SMA 262 (same obv. die as illustration); HGC 9, 1055; Sunrise 210A corr. (pedigree; this coin). EF, attractively toned, traces of deposits. Well struck from artistic dies. Rare.

From the Sunrise Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 59 (4 April 2011), lot 649.