Unique Oktradrachm – Ex Houghton Collection

Triton XIX, Lot: 2070. Estimate $100000. Sold for $275000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos III ‘the Great’. 222-187 BC. AV Oktadrachm (29mm, 34.14 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Struck circa 220-187 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; monograms to outer left and right. SC 1157 (this coin referenced and illustrated); ESM –; HGC 9, 440d corr. (SC reference); CSE 972 (this coin). EF, lustrous, a few light marks on obverse, softly struck on reverse. Unique.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Spink America, July 1995. Ex Christie’s New York (20 September 1994), lot 162 and front cover; Arthur Houghton Collection (Numismatic Fine Arts XVIII, 31 March 1987), lot 323; Leu 20 (25 April 1978), lot 161.

This oktadrachm is the cover coin for SAN XIX.2 (1995), and the subject of a short note by Dr. Adams on the journal’s front endpaper.