375, Lot: 69. Estimate $150. Sold for $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos VII Euergetes (Sidetes). 138-129 BC. AR Didrachm (20mm, 6.89 g, 12h). Tyre mint. Dated SE 176 (137/6 BC). Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing left on prow, with palm frond over shoulder; to left, monogram above club surmounted by Tyre monogram; to right, monogram above ςOP (date); AΣ between legs. SC 2110.4c; HGC 9, 1077; DCA 201. VF, toned, some porosity.
From the Dennis Rider Collection of the Coins of Tyre. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 334 (3 September 2014), lot 165; Dix, Noonan, Webb 28 (29 January 1997), lot 692.