Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 907. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos VI Dionysos. 144-142 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.25 g, 12h). Antioch mint. Dated SE 169 (144/3 BC). Radiate and diademed head right / The Dioskouroi riding left, holding couched lances; to right, TPY, Φ, and ΣTA; ΘΞP (date) below; all within wreath of lily, ivy, and grain ears. SMA 232; SNG Spaer 1762. Superb EF, a hint of flat strike in center of reverse. Struck on a broad flan.

Ex Triton X (9 January 2007), lot 396.