SELEUCID KINGDOM OF SYRIA. ANTIOCHUS IV EPIPHANUS, king 175-164 BC. Tetradrachm, Antiochia in Pieria, about 168-164. AR 16.39 g. Diademed head r. in stemma. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ / ANTIOXOY - ΘEOY / EPIΦANOYΣ - NIKHΦOPOY Zeus, wearing himation, nude to waist, seated l. on diphros, holding long sceptre with his l. hand, on his outstretched r. hand, Nike crowning the king's epithet; in outer l. field, monogram. Houghton-Lorber, SC II, 64,1400a; Le Rider, Antioche 206,302 (same dies). Large flan. Nice old cabinet tone. Extremely fine

Provenance: From an old Swiss Collection started in the 19th. century.