CNG 108, Lot: 354. Estimate $750. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos). 121/0-97/6 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 16.32 g, 11h). Uncertain mint 112, in Cilicia. Struck circa 121/0-114/3 BC. Diademed head right within fillet border / Athena Nikephoros standing left; to outer left, AΘ above monogram; all within laurel wreath. SC 2291.3; Houghton, Reigns, Series II, Group 1, dies A1/P– (unlisted rev. die); HGC 9, 1195. Near EF, toned. Very rare.

From the MNL Collection. Ex Jencek Historical Enterprise Inventory Y04007 (November 2012); W. K. Raymond Collection.