Ex Brand and Rhousopoulos Collections
Triton XXII, Lot: 328. Estimate $4000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos VI Dionysos. 144-142 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.62 g, 1h). Antioch mint. Dated SE 169 (144/3 BC). Radiate and diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY EΠIΦANOYΣ ΔIONYΣOY, the Dioskouroi on horseback riding left, holding couched lances; to right, TPY, monogram, and ΣTA; ΘΞP (date) below; all within wreath of lily, ivy, and grain ears. SC 2000.2f; SMA 230 (
this coin referenced); HGC 9, 1032; Rhousopoulos 4459 (
this coin). Near EF, toned.
From the MNL Collection. Ex Triton XV (3 January 2012), lot 1286; Münzen und Medaillen GmbH 11 (7 November 2002), lot 765; Virgil M. Brand Collection (Part 3, Sotheby’s, 9 June 1983), lot 142; Anastasios Rhousopoulos Collection (J. Hirsch XIII, 15 May 1905), lot 4459.