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Greece/Seleucid; Cleopatra Thea and Antiochus VIII BCE 125-121

AE 19 mm, 6.58 g. , Ptolemaïs Ake mint, SE 188=BCE 125/4

SC 2274.5 (unlike the SCII example, this one is dated and therefore places the N control in SE 188)

O: Radiate, diademed hd of Antiochus VIII r, no diadem ends visible, dotted border.

R: ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΗΣ ΚΛΕΟΠΑΤΡΑΣ in two lines on r. ΚΑΙ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ in three lines, Isis headdress, resting on inverted crescent. date in ex. HΠP, high inner right N

Tantalus ID#35541