Watch List notes:

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos). 121/0-97/6 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 16.52 g, 12h). Sidon mint. Dated SE 196 (117/6 BC). Diademed head right / Zeus Ouranios standing left, holding star and scepter; to outer left, ΣIΔΩ above IEP above AΣ above monogram; ς(koppa)P (date) in exergue; all within laurel wreath. SC 2330.1; Rouvier 1276; HGC 9, 1197g; DCA 268. VF, toned, a few marks.


From the MNL Collection, purchased from B. Franceschi, 9 February 2016.