CNG 96, Lot: 552. Estimate $5000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos XII Dionysos. 87/6-83/2 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 15.77 g, 1h). Damaskos mint. Dated SE 228 (85/4 BC). Diademed head right, with short beard / Cult image of Hadad, holding grain ear, standing facing on double basis; two bull foreparts flanking legs; two monograms to outer left, date in exergue. SC 2472.1 corr. (lower monogram); HHV 9 corr. (same, and unlisted dies); HGC 9, 1324; DCA 309. Good VF, toned, a little porosity. Extremely rare, one of only two examples with this date.

This coin will appear in the forthcoming addenda and corrigenda to SC as SC C2472.1, noting the correction to the reading of the lower monogram.