Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 870. Estimate $40.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos IV Epiphanes. 175-164 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.28 gm). Ake-Ptolemais mint. Struck circa 168-164 BC. Diademed head right / Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding arrow and bow set on ground; palm to outer left, AB monogram to inner left, HP monogram in exergue. SNG Spaer 1150 var. (monogram in exergue); cf. Mørkholm 4 (A3/P?); Houghton 777; SNG Copenhagen Suppl. 1079 (same obverse die). VF, toned. ($400)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.