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From the Wilkinson, Lockett, and Pozzi Collections

375, Lot: 433. Estimate $500.
Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos III ‘the Great’. 222-187 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 17.25 g, 12h). Tarsos mint. Diademed head right / Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding bow and testing arrow; to outer left, monogram above torch; monogram to outer right. SC 1026.3; HGC 9, 447r; SNG Lockett 3115 = Pozzi 2949 (this coin). VF, toned, a few cleaning marks under the tone.


From the Dennis Rider Collection. Ex Dr. J. S. Wilkinson Collection (Malter 49, 15 November 1992), lot 869; Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Greek Part IV, Glendining, 21 February 1961), lot 2573; Prof. S. Pozzi Collection (Naville I, 14 March 1921), lot 2949.

Previously attributed to the mint of Tyre; see O. Mørkholm in MN XI (1964), pp. 53–8 for revision.