Watch List notes:

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos VI Dionysos. 144-142 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.58 g, 12h). Apameia on the Axios (Orontes) mint. Dated SE 169 (144/3 BC). Radiate and diademed head right / BAΣIΛ[EΩΣ] ANTIOXOY EΠIΦANOYΣ ΔIONYΣOY, the Dioskouroi, holding reins in right hand and couched lances in left, on horses rearing left; to right, TPY above monogram above monogram; ΘΞP (date) below; all within wreath of laurel, ivy, and grain ears. SC 2010.3 (this coin referenced); Houghton, Revolt, Group XI, 51 (A8/P21 – this coin); SMA 228; HGC 9, 1032; DCA 178. Lightly toned, small area of weak strike, slightly off center on reverse. Near EF. Fine style. Very rare without thyrsos on reverse.


From the Jeffrey H. Miller Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 356 (May 1974), lot 10.