Watch List notes:

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos). 121/0-97/6 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 16.53 g, 12h). Damaskos mint. Dated SE 194 (119/8 BC). Diademed head right within fillet border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY EΠI-ΦANOYΣ, Zeus Ouranios, nude, standing left, holding star in extended right hand and scepter in left; two monograms to outer left; Δ(koppa)P (date) in exergue; all within wreath. SC 2322.3b; LSM 94; HGC 9, 1196e; DCA 266; SNG Spaer 2649. Near EF, attractive deep iridescent tone.


From the MNL Collection, purchased from B. Franceschi, 20 May 2015.