SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos). 121/0-97/6 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.74 g, 1h). Tarsos mint. Second reign at Tarsos, circa 112-96 BC. Diademed head right / ∫Å%5¬EW% `@t5oco¨ E∏5f`@o¨%, Sandan standing right on back of horned and winged lion standing right upon garlanded altar with baldachin; to outer left, 8 above /. SC 2288.1d; HGC 9, 1198; CSE 489 (same dies). Old collection tone. VF.
From the Henry A. Sauter Collection. Ex Massachusetts Historical Society/John Quincy Adams Family Collection (Part I, Stack’s, 5 March 1971), lot 287.
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