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CNG 85, Lot: 497. Estimate $500.
Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos). 121/0-97/6 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.02 g, 12h). Uncertain mint in Cilicia. Struck 121/0-114/3 BC. Diademed head right / Athena Nikephoros standing left; to outer left, NOY above EY; all within laurel wreath. SC 2291.5 var. (lower control); Houghton, Reigns, Series III, Group 1 var. (same; obv. die A1 of Series II); HGC 9, 1195. Good VF, minor porosity. A variety of a very rare type.