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


AR Tetradrachm, 30.43 mm, 16.47 g, Sidon mint  Year 197/BCE 116/5

 SC 2330.2, SNG Spaer 2577-78, HSC 1197g (R2), BMC 8, Babelon 1387-8

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. Mintmark on outer left ΣΙΔΩ/IEP/AΣ, above control with date in ex.