Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 902. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $1255. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos III ‘the Great’. 223-187 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.95 g, 12h). Soli mint. Struck circa 197-187 BC. Diademed head right, with elderly features (type E) / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos, holding arrow and bow; to outer left, ΔI above owl standing right; AP monogram to outer right. SC 1021.4a; Houghton, Royal 26 (A6/P10). Good VF, light cleaning marks. Rare.