CNG 97, Lot: 289. Estimate $500. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos III ‘the Great’. 222-187 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.09 g, 12h). Uncertain mint in northern Mesopotamia. Struck circa 204/2-187 BC. Diademed head right / Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding arrow and bow; ΠA monogram to inner left, NI to inner right. SC 1115c; HGC 9, 447z. VF, toned, slightly off center.

From the Patrick H. C. Tan Collection.