Confirming an Implied Issue

CNG 108, Lot: 324. Estimate $750. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos IV Philopator. 187-175 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 17.10 g, 1h). ICIΔ mint, in Mesopotamia or Media. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and resting hand on bow, seated left on omphalos; kausia(?) behind head, ICIΔ in tiny letters within bow, HP monogram in exergue. SC 1333.4 var. (unlisted variety); HGC 9, 580i; CSE 1314 var. (same dies, but this monogram erased, and new control monogram added to die). Good VF. High relief portrait. Unique example with these control marks, from a very rare mint (it is the only coin of this mint in CoinArchives).

From the MNL Collection. Ex G. Hirsch 314 (23 September 2015), lot 2559.

Although this issue is not represented in SC, it is implied by SC 1333.4, where the original control mark was erased in the die, and moved to a horizontal position on the outer left. It is struck from the same dies as CSE 1314, which is the reference coin for SC 1334, but in its previous die state, with the original control mark.