CNG 99, Lot: 345. Estimate $750. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos). 121/0-97/6 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.17 g, 12h). Tarsos mint. First reign at Tarsos, struck circa 121/0-114/3 BC. Diademed head right within fillet border / Sandan standing right on back of horned lion-griffin standing right upon garlanded altar with baldachin; two monograms to outer left. SC 2286d; HGC 9, 1198. Good VF, toned, light marks and scratches.

Ex Gorny & Mosch 225 (14 October 2014), lot 1667 (realized € 650); G. Hirsch 89 (8 October 1974), lot 712.