CNG 102, Lot: 604. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos VI Dionysos. 144-142 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.41 g, 12h). Apameia on the Orontes mint. Dated SE 168 (144 BC). Radiate and diademed head right / The Dioskouroi riding left, holding couched lances; thyrsos to left; TPY to upper right, monogram to lower right, HΞP (date) below; all within wreath of laurel, ivy, and grain ears. SC 2009.1b; Houghton, Revolt, – (A5/P– [unlisted rev. die]); HGC 9, 1032 corr. (thyrsos not always present). Near EF, toned, underlying luster.

From the Allan Smith, M.D. Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, 20 May 2011 (inv. no. G10962).