375, Lot: 71. Estimate $150. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos VII Euergetes (Sidetes). 138-129 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.05 g, 12h). Tyre mint. Dated SE 179 (134/3 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 ΘΟP (date); monogram between legs. SC 2109.7a; HGC 9, 1074; DCA 198. VF, some deposits and cleaning marks.
From the Dennis Rider Collection of the Coins of Tyre.