452, Lot: 408. Estimate $300. Sold for $420. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos IV Philopator. 187-175 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.91 g, 12h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos, testing arrow and resting hand on bow; filleted palm frond to outer left, monogram in exergue. SC 1313.2; Le Rider,
Antioche 89–92 (obv. die A2); HGC 9, 580e. Toned, slightly off center on obverse. Good VF.
From the John L. Cowan Collection. Ex estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind (Classical Numismatic Group 102, 18 May 2016), lot 597; Gorny & Mosch 203 (5 March 2012), lot 254.