Ex Kern and Houghton Collections

CNG 109, Lot: 348. Estimate $5000. Sold for $9500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos XI Epiphanes Philadelphos. Circa 94/3 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.48 g, 12h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Diademed head right within fillet border / BAΣIΛEΩ[Σ] ANTIOXO[V] EΠIΦAN[OVΣ] ΦIΛAΔEΛ[ΦOV], Zeus Nikephoros seated left; to outer left, monogram above [A]; monogram below throne; all within laurel wreath. SC 2441 (this coin referenced); HGC 9, 1299; CSE 388 (this coin). VF, toned, slight porosity, off center on reverse. Very rare.

From the MNL Collection, purchased from Jonathan Kern, August 2011. Ex Arthur Houghton Collection, purchased from Numismatic Fine Arts, December 1977.