I have a nice, scarce, drachm of Antiochus VI that I will sell to someone on this list for $145 with free shipping to USA or Canada. Currently the only 3 drachms of this ruler in comparable shape and centering on VCoins range from about $200 - $350. The coin has an exact/correct attribution cite from both SC and Hoover (who rates it as Scarce). I like the presence of the grape cluster on the thyros, which is often either off-flan or too worn to clearly see on this type. 2 images of the coin are below: Seleucid Empire. Antiochos VI. AR drachm. Mint: Apameia / Apamea, Syria Obv.: Young portrait, diademed and wearing radiate crown, right. Rev.: BASILEWS ANTIOXOY EPIFANOUS DIONUSOY (of King Antiochos, Manifest Dionysos). Apollo Delphios seated left, on omphalos, holding bow with left hand, and thyrsos in right hand with bunch of grapes. A/M monogram at feet. Exergue: Q X P = date of 144-143 B.C. Weight: 3.9 gr. Diam.: 16 mm. Attribution: SC 2011.2g. HGC Vol. 9, 1036b (Scarce). Antiochus VI was a boy king. He died at about 8 years old – probably murdered. ‘Epiphanes’ (Manifest) epithet refers to his grandad the infamous Antiochos IV. ‘Dionysus’ epithet refers to the origin of his reign having begun at Apamea. Apamea seems to have been the biblical city of Shepham, (Numbers 34:10-11).
