Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 584. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos VII Euergetes. 138-129 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.65 gm, 1h). Mallos mint. Diademed head right; M/A to left / Cult statue of Athena Magarsia facing; EP and AS flanking feet. SNG Spaer -; Houghton, Mallus 13 var. (A2/P-; monogram not EP). VF, some roughness. Very rare and an unpublished variety. ($500)

The Temple of Athena at Magarsos, near Mallos, was an important cultic sanctuary in the Hellenistic period. The central statue of Athena Magarsia is known only from the handful of coins that have survived, and which show a blending of Greek and eastern motifs.