Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 299. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos). 121/0-97/6 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.48 g, 12h). Antioch mint. Struck 121/0-113 BC. Diademed head right / BASILEWS ANTIOCOU EPI-FANOUS, Zeus Oranios standing left, crescent above head, holding scepter in left hand, star above extended right hand; IE/A to outer left, N to inner right; all within wreath. SMA 367; Babelon -; SNG Spaer 2495; Houghton 322. Near EF, attractive dark iridescent toning.

Ex Triton VIII (11 January 2005), lot 549.