CNG 87, Lot: 621. Estimate $1000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos III ‘the Great’. 222-187 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 17.01 g, 12h). Antioch mint. Struck circa 204-197 BC. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos, testing arrow, hand on bow; bow in bowcase to outer left, AΣ in exergue. SC 1044.5b (this coin referenced); Le Rider, Antioche 178 (A13/P134 – this coin); HGC 9, 447u. EF, toned. Attractive portrait.

Ex Elsen 91 (24 March 2007), lot 116; Numismatic Fine Arts XXIX (13 August 1992), lot 170; Numismatic Fine Arts VI (27 Februrary 1979), lot 371.