Sale: CNG 63, Lot: 658. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2003.  Sold For $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos VIII. Second Reign, 121-113 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.31 gm). Antioch mint. Diademed head right / Zeus Oranios standing left, holding star and sceptre, crescent moon over head; IE/A to left, D below. Cf. SNG Spaer 2499; cf. Newell, SMA 376. Good VF, some smoothing in fields. ($300)

The Antioch issues of Antiochos VIII always show Zeus with drapery around his waist. This coin, while showing the marks of Antioch, shows a nude Zeus, a style used occasionally at the mints of Ake and Damascus.