Category: tetradrachm.
Obverse: diademed head of Antiochus VIII Grypus (hook-nose). Reverse: Zeus - Uranus, draped, standing, holding star and sceptre, ΔΡ in left field, all within laurel wreath.
Inscription: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY EΠIΦANOYΣ
Material: silver.
Dimensions: diameter: 2.7 - 3 cm, thickness .35 cm.
Weight: 16.55 gm.
Era: second century BCE.
Acquired on April 3, 1954 from the antiquary Fāris Sabʿ al-Layl.
Collection: National Museum of Damascus.
Bašīr Zuhdī. ʾAqdam an-Nuqūd ad-Dimašqīyyā wa Namaḏiǧihā fi al-Matḥaf al-Waṭanī bi Dimašq. Annales Archéologiques Arabes Syriennes XXVI 1976 (pp. 73-98).
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