CNG 90, Lot: 691. Estimate $200. Sold for $170. 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, 16.65 g, 12h). Damaskos mint. Dated SE 198 (115/4 BC). Diademed head right / Zeus Ouranios standing left, holding star and scepter; two monograms to outer left; H(koppa)P (date) in exergue; all within wreath. SC 2323.6; HGC 9, 1197f; DCA 266. VF, obverse a little off center.