Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 459. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos VIII. First Reign, 121-circa 114 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.51 gm). Ake Ptolemais mint. Struck circa 117-115 BC. Diademed head right / BASILEWS ANTIOCOU EPI-FANOUS, Zeus Oranios standing left, holding star and sceptre; M left; all within laurel wreath. SNG Spaer 2591; Newell, LSM 32; Houghton 812. EF. ($500)