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Greece; Seleucid; Antiochus VIII Grypus BCE 121/0-96


AR Tetradrachm, 29 x 30 mm, 16.36 g, Uncertain mint 116 in Cilicia or N. Syria c. after 112 BCE.
 SC 2294.3, SNG Spaer 2569, HSC 1197c (R2)

O: diad hd r, diad ends falling straight behind, fillet border.

R: BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOY in two lines on rt EΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ on left, Zeus Uranios standing left, crescent above head, holding scepter in left hand, star above extended right hand, slightly double struck. Controls on outer left monogram above A, and N in ex.




Katz Auction 42 (18/04/2021) Lot 1393; 16.32 g, SC 2294.3, same mint, different dies. According to acsearch.info, this example had previously been sold by Gorny & Mosch in March 2018 Auction 253 lot 245. The same auction house had this at auction in 2015 as well. acsearch notes three different examples sold on six different occasions between 2015 and 2021. It appears that the census is approximately 4 extant examples inclusive of the two illustrated above.