Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 540. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos IV Epiphanes. 175-164 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.58 gm, 2h). Antioch mint. Struck circa 168-164 BC. Diademed head right / BASILEWS ANTIOCOU QEOU EPIFHANOUS NIKHFOROU, Zeus seated left, holding Nike in right hand, sceptre in left; monogram to outer left. SNG Spaer 1005 var. (monogram); Le Rider, Antioche 402 (A39/P284); Mørkholm Series III, 17 (A36/P156); SMA 72; Houghton 108 var. (monogram recut). EF. ($500)

The monogram on the reverse of this coin was recut over an earlier monogram that was partially erased (SMA 67).