Triton XVII, Lot: 377. Estimate $500. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos). 121/0-97/6 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.64 g, 12h). Ptolemaïs (Ake) mint. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY EΠI-ΦANOYΣ, Zeus Ouranios standing left, holding star in extended right hand and scepter in left; to outer left; monogram to outer left; all within wreath. SC 2336.2a; LSM 35; Rouvier –; CSE 813; SNG Spaer 2593; HGC 9, 1197h. EF, dark iridescent tone, a couple light marks on jaw.

From the Leo & Paula Gorelkin Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXXI (9 September 1994), lot 422.