Triton XVIII, Lot: 147. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos III ‘the Great’. 222-187 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 17.12 g, 1h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Struck circa 223-211/0 BC. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTI-OXOY, Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos, testing arrow in his right hand, left hand on bow set on ground to right; two monograms to outer left. SC 1041.2; Le Rider,
Antioche, Series 1, 161–2 (A11/P110); HGC 9, 447u; Sunrise –. Near EF, lightly toned, minor die breaks on obverse, small spot of flat strike on reverse. Bold portrait.
From the Sunrise Collection.