Triton XV, Lot: 1283. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos III ‘the Great’. 222-187 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.93 g, 11h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Series 3, circa 204–197 BC. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXO[Y], Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos, testing arrow held in extended right hand, left hand on bow set on ground behind; bow-in-bow case to outer left. SC 1044.5a; Le Rider, Antioche 178 (obv. die A12); SMA 26; WSM 1100γ (same obv. die); SNG Spaer 544 (same obv. die); CSE 79; HGC 9, 447u. Near EF, attractively toned. Wonderful high relief portrait.