Sale: CNG 61, Lot: 820. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 25 September 2002.  Sold For $420. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleukid Kings. Antiochos III. 223-186 BC. AR Drachm (4.00 gm). Apamea on the Orontes mint? Circa 204-200 BC. Diademed head right / Elephant walking right; monogram to the right. Houghton & Lorber 1065(6); SNG Spaer 692 var. (different monogram); Newell, ESM 631 (same obverse die); Houghton, "The Elephants of Nisibis," in ANSMN 31 (1986), pg. 111, 39 (A1/P10); Houghton CSE 1186 (same obverse die). Near EF. Rare. ($500)