CNG 112, Lot: 195. Estimate $750. Sold for $1255. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 165-42 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.87 g, 12h). New Style coinage. Antiochos, Nikog–, and Nikon–, magistrates. Struck 131/0 BC. Helmeted head of Athena Parthenos right / Owl standing right, head facing, on amphora; magistrates’ names in fields; monogram to lower left; to right, elephant standing right; B on amphora, ΣΩ below; all within wreath. Thompson 396/397c (for obv./rev. dies); HGC 4, 1635. Toned, minor die breaks in field on obverse. Near EF. Very unusual with monogram in names.

The monogram (of KH?) following the last letter of the third magistrate’s name is thought to be a patronymic or demotic.