378, Lot: 228. Estimate $300. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos). 121/0-97/6 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.47 g, 1h). Uncertain Mint 116 in Cilicia or Northern Syria. Second reign, struck after circa 112 BC. Diademed head right / Zeus Ouranios standing left, holding star and scepter; two monograms to outer left; N in exergue; all within wreath. SC 2294.3; HGC 9, 1197c. Near EF, lightly toned, some underlying luster.