445, Lot: 865. Estimate $100. Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
|
SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos VI Dionysos. 144-142 BC. Electrotype “Tetradrachm” (32mm, 20.36 g, 12h). British Museum electrotype by Robert Ready or his sons (marked R on edge). Radiate and diademed head right / The Dioskouroi riding left, holding couched lances; thyrsos to left; to right, TPY above Φ; ΘΞP (date) below; all within wreath of laurel, ivy, and grain ears. Head,
Guide, Period VI.A., 25. As made, toned.
From the Johnson Family Collection, purchased from William Koonce, 2 May 1969.