Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 867. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos IV Philopator. 187-175 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.60 gm). Ake-Ptolemais mint. Diademed head right / Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding arrow and bow set on ground; palm to outer left, AB monogram to inner left, IA in exergue. SNG Spaer 928-929 (same obverse die); Mørkholm, "Some Western Seleucid Coins," INJ 3, 1ff (Obv. 1/uncertain rev. die); Houghton 771 (same obverse die). Near EF, toned. Rare issue. ($500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 46 (24 June 1998), lot 483.

This is the first issue from Ake-Ptolemais after the issues of Alexander the Great. The mint appears to have remained in operation thereafter, except for the reign of Antiochos VII, until at least 106 BC, the date of its last recorded Seleukid coin. The Seleukid era at Ake-Ptolemais ended in 104/3 BC when the city was captured by Alexander Jannaeus.