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Auction 11  14 May 2022
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Lot 163

Estimate: 750 CHF
Price realized: 1100 CHF
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SELEUKID KINGS OF SYRIA. Antiochos VII Euergetes (Sidetes), 138-129 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 30 mm, 16.79 g, 1 h), Antiochia on the Orontes. Diademed head of Antiochos VII to right. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ / ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟY - EYEPΓETOY Athena standing front, head to left, holding Nike in her right hand and resting her left on shield decorated with gorgoneion and set on ground; spear leaning against her left arm; to outer left, monogram above A; to inner right, Φ; all within laurel wreath. Lorber, Antiochos VII, 696 (this coin, A90/P1). SC 2061.4b. A beautiful piece with an exceptionally fine portrait. A few light marks, otherwise, nearly extremely fine.


Ex Freeman & Sear 15, 27 June 2008, 187 (with original ticket) and from the 'Antiochos VII posthumous' Hoard (CH X, 288), 3, inv. Ant 345.
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