CNG 108, Lot: 328. Estimate $500. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos IV Epiphanes. 175-164 BC. AR Drachm (20.5mm, 4.09 g, 12h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Series 2, circa 173/2-169/8 BC. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and resting hand on bow, seated left on omphalos; no control marks. SC 1403; Le Rider, Antioche 18 corr. (A3/P13 – this coin, illustrated); HGC 9, 626. EF, toned. Good metal for issue. Rare.

From the MNL Collection. Ex Hess-Divo 328 (22 May 2015), lot 68; Leu 53 (21 October 1991), lot 130; Peus 314 (30 October 1985), lot 150; Schweizerische Kreditanstalt 2 (27 April 1984), lot 7.

In his die study of the Antioch mint, Le Rider thought that this coin may have been struck by obverse die A2, but retouched, or a new die, A3. He must not have seen the coin in hand, as comparing it to examples of A2 reveals that it cannot possibly be from A2. It must be from a new die, A3.