Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 297. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos VI Dionysos. 144-142 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.18 g, 12h). Apameia mint. Dated SE 168 (145/4 BC). Radiate and diademed head right / BASILEWS ANTIOCOU EPIFANOUS DIONUSOU, the Dioskouroi riding left, holding couched lances; thyrsos to left, TPY to upper right, K to lower right, HXR (date) below; all within wreath of lily, ivy, and grain ears. Houghton, Revolt, group IV, 18-21 (obv. die A5); Babelon 988 = De Luynes 3371 = SMA 220 corr. (mint); SNG Spaer -; Houghton -; Weber 7916. EF, slight roughness.