Well Struck Kleopatra Thea & Antiochos VIII

CNG 111, Lot: 358. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Kleopatra Thea & Antiochos VIII. 125-121 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.67 g, 12h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Struck circa 122-121 BC. Jugate busts right of Kleopatra, wearing diadem, veil, and stephane, and Antiochos VIII, wearing diadem / [BA]ΣIΛIΣΣHΣ KΛEOΠATPAΣ KAI BAΣ-IΛEΩΣ [A]N-TIOXOY, Zeus Nikephoros seated left; IE to outer left, A below throne. SC 2262.1d; SMA 359; HGC 9, 1182c. Good VF, toned. Well struck.

From the MNL Collection. Ex Waddell inventory 49711 (February 2012); Stack’s Bowers & Ponterio 163 (6 January 2012), lot 303.