Ex Niggeler Collection

CNG 109, Lot: 350. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos XIII Philadelphos (Asiatikos). 69/8-67 & 65/4 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 14.79 g, 12h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Diademed head right within fillet border / BAΣIΛE[ΩΣ] ANTIOXO[V] ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦ[ΟV], Zeus Nikephoros seated left; MA monogram to inner left; all within laurel wreath. SC 2487a; SMA 460; HGC 9, 1340. VF, toned, some porosity, slightly off center. Very rare, only two in CoinArchives.

From the MNL Collection. Ex François Charrin Collection (Parsy, 26 November 2013), lot 114; Kricheldorf XXXIV (24 January 1980), lot 220; Walter Niggeler Collection (Part 1, Leu & Münzen und Medaillen AG, 3 December 1965), lot 479; Hess-Leu [9] (2 April 1958), lot 253.