Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1026. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos IV Epiphanes. 175-164 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.79 g, 12h). Antioch mint. Struck 168-164 BC. Diademed head right / BASILEWS ANTIOCOU QEOU EPIFANOUS NIKHFOROU, Zeus Nikephoros seated left, with Nike standing left crowning epithet with laurel wreath; monogram to outer left. Le Rider, Antioche, Series IIIB, 386 (A37/P272); Mørkholm Series III, 16 (A32/P138); SMA 67; SNG Spaer -; Houghton 108; Weber 7885 (same dies); de Hirsch 1671 (same obv. die). EF, toned. ($1000)