135, Lot: 30. Estimate $150. Sold for $156. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Arados. 137-46 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 15.07 g). Dated CY 192 (68/7 BC). Turreted and veiled head of Tyche right / Nike standing left, holding aphlastron and palm; date and control letters in left field; all within wreath. BMC Phoenicia p. 32, 266-7. VF, toned.

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Hans M. F. Schulman (6-8 February 1969), lot 442.

Struck in the same year that Judah Aristobulus II seized power in neighboring Judaea.