Triton XIX, Lot: 288. Estimate $3000. Sold for $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos IV Epiphanes. 175-164 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.98 g, 11h). Tarsos (Antioch on the Kydnos) mint. Struck 173/68-164 BC. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY, Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos, testing arrow in his right hand and holding bow in his left; to outer left, monogram above wing; monogram to outer right, club in exergue. SC 1377.2a (this coin referenced); HGC 9, 615c. Near EF, attractively toned, minor die break in field on obverse, slight die shift on reverse. Excellent portrait.

From the Leonidion Collection. Ex Sierra Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 88, 14 September 2011), lot 456; Gorny & Mosch 107 (2 April 2001), lot 255.