★ Beautifully Toned ★

SELEUKID KINGS. Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos), 121/0-97/6 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 27.5 mm, 16.63 g, 12 h), Ake-Ptolemaïs, 121/0-113. Diademed head of Antiochos VIII to right. Rev. ΒAΣΙΛEΩΣ ΑNTIOXOY / EΠI-ΦANOYΣ Zeus Ouranios, draped, standing facing, head left, holding eight-pointed star in his outstretched right hand and long scepter with his left; above head, crescent with points upwards; in the outer left field, M; all within laurel wreath. HGC 9, 1197h. LSM 32. SC 2336.1. SNG Spaer 2590. Very attractively toned; a pleasant coin. About extremely fine.

From the collection of a Nobleman who died in 1940.