Triton XVII, Lot: 371. Estimate $1000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos Hierax. Circa 242-227 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.66 g, 12h). Alexandreia Troas mint. Head of Antiochos I right, wearing winged diadem / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTI-OXOY, Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos, testing arrow in his right hand and holding bow in his left; two monogram to outer right; in exergue horse grazing left (erased in die). Cf. SC 882.3 corr. (upper monogram); ESM –; CSE –; SNG Spaer –; HGC 9, 399g; Mektepini 311. Near EF, light cleaning marks, microscopic stress crack on obverse. Splendid high relief portrait.