★ Very attractive tetradrachm ★

Seleukid Kingdom. Ake-Ptolemaïs. Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos) 121-97 BC.
Tetradrachm AR

30mm., 16,59g.

Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOΧOY EΠIΦANOYΣ, Zeus Ouranios, draped, standing facing, head left, holding star and scepter; to outer left, M above AP monogram; all within laurel wreath.

nearly extremely fine, toned

Cf. SC 2336 (no secondary control); HGC 9, 1196g. From The Tareq Hani collection