263, Lot: 154. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Cleopatra Thea & Antiochos VIII. 125-121 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.48 g, 12h). Antioch mint. Struck 122-121 BC(?). Jugate busts right of Cleopatra Thea, diademed, veiled, and wearing stephane, and Antiochus VIII d iademed / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; IE to outer left, A below throne. SC 2262.1d; HGC 9, 1182c. Good VF, attractively toned, very minor obverse die deterioration.

From the Fredy Vortisch Collection.