421, Lot: 305. Estimate $150. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos IV Philopator. 187-175 BC. Æ (23.7mm, 10.26 g, 2h). Ekbatana mint. Draped busts of the Dioskouroi, side by side, facing; one on the left slightly right, one on the right slightly left; each wearing laureate pileos / Nike advancing left, holding wreath and palm frond; monograms to inner left. SC 1357; HGC 9, 590. Fine, dark brown patina with traces of green, roughness. Very rare.
From the MNL Collection. Ex Musa Numismatic Art Inventory, no. 110092; W.K. Raymond Collection.