Watch List notes:

SELEUKID KINGS OF SYRIA. Antiochos VI Dionysos, 144-142 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 32 mm, 16.74 g, 1 h), Antiochia on the Orontes. Struck under Tryphon, SE 169 = 144/3. Radiate and diademed head of Antiochos VI to right. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ / ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ - ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ / ΔΙΟΝΥΣΟΥ The Dioskouroi galloping left, holding lances; to right, TPY above monogram of XA above ΣTA; below horses, ΘΞP; all within wreath of lily, ivy and grain leaves and ears. SC 2000.2f. A lovely example with a particularly charming portrait of the child king, then five years old. Very light doubling on the obverse, otherwise, extremely fine.


From the Kleinkunst Collection, ex Triton I, 2-3 December 1997, 568.