Attractive Old Cabinet Tone

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos). 121/0-97/6 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.29 g, 12h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Struck circa 109-96 BC. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY, Zeus Nikephoros seated left; two monograms to outer left, Θ below throne; all within laurel wreath. SC 2309.2g; HGC 9, 1200. Old cabinet tone. Good VF.

Ex Wild Rose Collection; Tony Hardy Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 67, 22 September 2004), lot 894.