CNG 111, Lot: 352. Estimate $500. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos VII Euergetes (Sidetes). 138-129 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30.5mm, 16.96 g, 12h). Tarsos mint, Royal Workshop. Diademed head right / Athena Nikephoros standing left, resting hand on shield, and propping spear on her arm; to outer left, NE monogram above Σ; all within wreath. SC 2055.8; HGC 9, 1067c. Near EF, a couple of short hairline flan cracks. Well centered and struck on a broad flan. Very rare.

From the MNL Collection. Ex Rauch Sommerauktion 2013 (18 September 2013), lot 341.