Triton XVI, Lot: 554. Estimate $750. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos). 121/0-97/6 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.51 g, 12h). Damaskos mint. Dated SE 193 (120/19 BC). Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY EΠI-ΦANOYΣ, Zeus Ouranios, nude, standing left, holding star in extended right hand and scepter in left; two monograms to outer left; Γ(koppa)P (date) in exergue; all within wreath. SC 2321.2c; LSM 91; CSE 850; SNG Spaer 2646 var. (monogram); HGC 9, 1196e; DCA 266. EF, lightly toned.

From a Continental Collection, purchased privately in 1979.