109, Lot: 54. Estimate $100. Sold for $88. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos VII Euergetes. 138-129 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 3.69 gm, 12h). Tyre mint. Dated SE 179 (134/3 BC). Diademed head right / Nike advancing left, holding wreath and palm. Cf. SNG Spaer 2092 = Houghton 766; Newell, Tyre 188 = Rogers 125 var. (date). Near VF. Extremely rare type, unpublished with this date.

There are only three published drachms from the Tyre mint with the Nike reverse type, and all are dated SE 174. It is uncertain why the Nike type was struck concurrent with the more common eagle type.