Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 291. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  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 (16.96 g, 12h). Uncertain mint 68 in North Mesopotamia. Struck circa 197-187 BC. Diademed head right / BASILEWS ANTIOCOU, Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos, testing arrow in his right hand, left hand on bow set on ground behind; monograms to outer left and right. SC 1133.4a; WSM 843; Babelon, Rois -; SNG Spaer -; Houghton -. Near EF, lightly toned, small mark in field on obverse.

From the Semon Lipcer Collection.