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, Leu 6, 23 October 2020, 280 and ex Triton I, 2-3 December 1997, 568.