Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 460. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos VIII. First Reign, 121-circa 114 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.54 gm). Ake Ptolemais mint. Struck circa 115-113 BC. Diademed head right / BASILEWS ANTIOCOU EPI-FANOUS, Zeus Oranios standing left, holding star and sceptre; crescent moon over head, monogram to left; all within laurel wreath. SNG Spaer 2592; Newell, LSM 35; Houghton 813. Lightly toned EF. ($400)