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147, Lot: 59. Estimate $300.
Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Cleopatra Thea & Antiochos VIII. 126/5-121/0 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.27 g). Sidon mint. Dated SE 192 (121/0 BC). Conjoined busts right of Cleopatra, veiled, wearing diadem and stephane, and Antiochos, diademed / Zeus seated left, holding Nike and lotus-tipped sceptre; X outer left, SI/IER/AS below, BPP (date) and aplaston in exergue. SNG Spaer -; Houghton, CSE 722 var. (XA monogram outer left); BMC p. 86, 2 var. (same). VF, flan crack, scratches, reverse porosity.


From the Henry Chitwood Collection.