97, Lot: 50. Estimate $150. Sold for $195. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleukis & Pieria. Laodikeia ad Mare. Circa 81/0-17/6 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 15.02 gm). Dated CY 18 (64/63 BC). Veiled, turreted, and draped bust of Tyche right; qoppa on rear turret / Zeus seated left, holding Nike and sceptre; HI (date) before, AS below throne, SE in exergue. Mørkholm, Laodicea 11b (obverse die 16); SNG Copenhagen 325 var. (date). VF, minor marks in fields.

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.

Although Mørkholm does not comment specifically on the obverse mark, he does note that this obverse die is recorded for only a two-year-span, CY 17-18 (65-63 BC). Unknown to Mørkholm at the time, a recent similar example (Classical Numismatic Group 66, lot 655), dated CY 15 (67/6 BC), clearly shows that the use of this obverse can be extended now to a four-year period (CY 15-18).