Sale: CNG 61, Lot: 851. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 25 September 2002.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleukid Kings. Cleopatra Thea & Antiochos VIII. 125-121 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.48 gm). Damascus mint. Year 192 (121 BC). 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, monogram under throne, date BPP in exergue. SNG Spaer 2491; Newell, LSM, 87; Houghton, CSE, 848 var. VF. ($500)