322, Lot: 368. Estimate $300. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Kleopatra Thea & Antiochos VIII. 125-121 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.14 g, 12h). Ake-Ptolemais mint. Dated SE 189 (124/3 BC). Jugate busts right of Kleopatra Thea, diademed, veiled, and wearing stephane, and Antiochos VIII diademed / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; ΣY monogram to outer left, ΘΠΡ (date) in exergue. SC 2271.1; HGC 9, 1182g; DCA 252. VF, find patina, scratches and scrapes, deposits on the reverse.