CNG 109, Lot: 349. Estimate $7500. Sold for $16000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos XII Dionysos. 87/6-83/2 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 15.77 g, 1h). Damaskos mint. Dated SE 228 (85/4 BC). Diademed head right, with short beard / [B]ΛCIΛEΩC ΛNTIOXOV EΠIΦΛNOVC ΦIΛOΠΛTOPOC KΛΛΛINIKOV, Cult image of Hadad, holding grain ear in right hand, standing facing on double basis; two bull foreparts flanking legs; two monograms to outer left, HKε (date) in exergue. SC 2472.1 corr. (lower monogram); HHV 9 corr. (same, and unlisted dies); HGC 9, 1324; DCA 309. Good VF, toned, a little porosity. Extremely rare, one of only two examples with this date.

From the MNL Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 96 (14 May 2014), lot 552.

This coin will appear in a forthcoming addenda and corrigenda to SC as SC C2472.1, noting the correction to the reading of the lower monogram.