Sale: CNG 61, Lot: 849. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 25 September 2002.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleukid Kings. Cleopatra Thea & Antiochos VIII. 125-121 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.34 gm). Ake-Ptolemais mint. Conjoined busts right of Cleopatra, veiled, wearing diadem and stephane, and Antiochos, diademed / Zeus enthroned left, holding Nike in right hand, lotus-tipped sceptre in left; monogram outer left. SNG Spaer 2472; Newell, LSM, 8; Houghton, CSE, 804. Attractively toned, good VF, nice flan. ($1500)