Watch List notes:

SELEUKID KINGS OF SYRIA. Antiochos VI Dionysos, 144-142 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 32 mm, 16.46 g, 1 h), Antiochia on the Orontes. Struck under Tryphon, SE 170 = 143/2. 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 above ΣTA; below horses, OP; all within wreath of lily, ivy and grain leaves and ears. SC 2000.3b. Struck on a very broad flan and with a lovely idealized portrait of the child king. Thin flan crack and overstruck from somewhat worn dies on an earlier issue, otherwise, good very fine.


From the collection of Regierungsrat Dr. iur. Hans Krähenbühl, privately acquired from Bank Leu on 14 December 1973 (with a photocopy of the original invoice enclosed).