109, Lot: 56. Estimate $50. Sold for $82. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos IX Kyzikenos. 114-95 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 3.51 gm, 12h). Uncertain mint. Diademed head right / Nike advancing left, holding wreath and palm. SNG Spaer -; SMA -; Babelon -; BMC Seleukids -; Houghton -; Petrowicz Collection (Naville X), lot 1483. VF, porous. Very rare.

Although modelled off the Antioch type, this coin has no control marks, a standard feature of Antioch coinage. It is likely an issue of a subsidiary mint of Antiochos IX during the civil war against his brother, Antiochos VIII, perhaps at a time when Antioch was not controlled by the former.