406, Lot: 465. Estimate $500. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos, son of Seleukos IV. 175 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 4.21 g, 12h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Diademed head right / Apollo, testing arrow and resting hand on bow, seated left on omphalos; tripod to outer left, monogram in exergue. SC 1370; Le Rider, Antioche 8 (A1/P5) = H. B. Mattingly, “The Ma'Aret en-Num'an Hoard, 1980” in Essays Carson-Jenkins 42 (this coin [Le Rider erroneously lists as Ma’aret no. 41]); HGC 9, 611. VF, toned. Very rare.

From the George Bernert Collection. Ex Superior (11 June 1986), lot 1276; Girardi FPL 95, no. 19; 1980 Ma'Aret en-Num'an Hoard (CH VI, 37; CH VII, 98; CH IX, 511).