Ex Bunbury Collection

Triton XVIII, Lot: 144. Estimate $4000. Sold for $10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos Hierax. Circa 242-227 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 17.02 g, 11h). Alexandreia Troas mint, workshop A(?). Series I, group A. Head of Antiochos I, rejuvenated and idealized, right, wearing winged diadem / BAΣIΛEΩΣ AN-TIOXOY, Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos, testing arrow in his right hand, left hand on bow set on ground to right; monogram to inner right, horse grazing right and monogram in exergue. SC 875.1a; WSM 1568α = Sunrise 188 (this coin); HGC 9, 399g. EF, toned. Well centered.

From the Sunrise Collection. Ex Kovacs X (18 May 1990), lot 153; Hess-Leu 31 (6 December 1966), lot 514; Edward Herbert Bunbury Collection (Part 2, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 17 June 1896), lot 451.