Published by Le Rider and Mattingly

CNG 109, Lot: 277. Estimate $3000. Sold for $5500. 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 / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANT-IOXOY, Apollo Delphios, nude, seated left on omphalos, testing arrow in his right hand, left hand on bow set on ground to right; 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 MNL Collection. Ex George Bernert Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 406, 27 September 2017), lot 465; 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).