CNG 111, Lot: 333. Estimate $2500. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos IV Epiphanes. 175-164 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.84 g, 1h). Ptolemaïs (Ake) mint. Struck circa 168-167 BC. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and resting hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; palm frond to outer left, monograms to inner left and in exergue. SC 1475 var. (monogram; same obv. die as illustration); Mørkholm 4, dies A3/P– (unlisted rev. die); HGC 9, 620c. Near EF, toned, a few marks, slightly off center.

From the MNL Collection, purchased from Frank Kovacs, November 2011.