Ex Niggeler, Magnaguti, and Petrowitz Collections

CNG 109, Lot: 251. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos Hierax. Circa 242-227 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.93 g, 12h). Smyrna or Sardes mint(?). Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow in right hand, resting left hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; two monograms in exergue. SC 899.2; WSM 1432α (this coin); HGC 9, 403f. Good VF, toned, slight die wear on obverse.

From the MNL Collection, purchased from Franceschi et fils, October 2014. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG 52 (19 June, 1975), lot 209; Walter Niggeler Collection (Part 1, Leu & Münzen und Medaillen AG, 3 December 1965), lot 459; Conte Alessandro Magnaguti Collection (Part I, Santamaria, 12 October 1949), lot 76; Ars Classica X (15 June 1925), lot 934.