Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 366. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos). 121/0-97/6 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.15 g, 1h). Antioch mint. Struck circa 109-96 BC. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩ[Σ] ANTIOXOV EΠIΦANOVΣ, Zeus Nikephoros seated left; two monograms to outer left, monogram below throne; all within laurel wreath. SC 2309.2c; SMA 405; Houghton 346 (same obv. die); SNG Spaer 2554 (same obv. die). EF, attractively toned.

Ex Triton III (30 November 1999), lot 617.

Struck from the same obverse die as the following lot.