Triton XVII, Lot: 376. Estimate $500. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos). 121/0-97/6 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.57 g, 12h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. First reign at Antioch, 121/0-113 BC. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY EΠI-ΦANOYΣ, Zeus Ouranios standing left, holding star in extended right hand and scepter in left; to outer left; to outer left, IE above A; small A to inner right; all within wreath. SC 2298.2f; SMA 365; CSE –; SNG Spaer 2493; HGC 9, 1197h. EF, toned, a little off center on reverse.

From the Leo & Paula Gorelkin Collection.