From the Houghton Collection
363, Lot: 191. Estimate $500. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos IV Epiphanes. 175-164 BC. AR Tetradrachm (34mm, 16.36 g, 12h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Second series, circa 173/2-169/8 BC. Diademed head right / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; no control marks. SC 1396c; Le Rider,
Antioche 114 (A10/P80) = CSE 99 (this coin); HGC 9, 619. Good VF, toned, minor surface roughness along edge under toning on obverse. Struck on a broad flan.
Ex Numismatic Fin Arts Winter Mail Bid Sale (18 December 1987), lot 423; Arthur Houghton Collection, 99.