SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos VI Dionysos. 144-142 BC. AR

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos VI Dionysos. 144-142 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 15.31 g, 1h). Apameia on the Axios (Orontes) mint. Dated SE 169 (144/3 BC). Radiate and diademed head right; star to left / The Dioskouroi riding left, holding couched lances; thyrsos to left; to right, TPY above IΠ and monogram; ΘΞP (date) below; all within wreath of laurel, ivy, and grain ears. SC 2010.4b; Houghton, Revolt, Group XII, 58 (A10/P26 – this coin); HGC 9, 1032. In NGC encapsulation 6557296-001, graded VF, Strike: 4/5, Surface: 3/5, edge chips.

Ex Kricheldorf IV (7 October 1957), lot 366; L. Ciani (1 June 1920), lot 98.