Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 791. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos III ‘the Great’. 223-187 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.87 g, 12h). Uncertain mint 68 in northern Mesopotamia. Struck circa 197-187 BC. Diademed head right, with elderly features (type E) / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos, holding arrow and bow; monogram to outer left. SC 1133.9. Near EF, lightly toned. Artistic obverse die.