Sale: CNG 60, Lot: 923. Estimate $600.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 May 2002.  Sold For $725. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleukid Kings. Cleopatra Thea & Antiochos VIII. 125-121 BC. AR Tetradrachm (12.71 gm). Year 192 (121 BC). Ake-Ptolemais mint. Conjoined busts right of Cleopatra, veiled, wearing diadem and stephane, and Antiochos, diademed / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; two monograms left, date BPP right. SNG Spaer -; Newell, LSM, 21; Houghton, CSE, 809 var. (only the top monogram). Toned VF, porous, small lamination on eagle's thigh. ($600)