SC Plate Coin – Ex Kern Collection

CNG 108, Lot: 300. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos I Soter. 281-261 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 17.13 g, 5h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY, Apollo Delphios, testing arrow held in right hand, left hand resting on grounded bow to right, seated left on omphalos; monograms to outer left and right. SC 379.6a; HGC 9, 128g. EF, deep cabinet tone. High relief and well centered on a broad flan.

From the MNL Collection. Ex Jonathan K. Kern Collection; Numismatic Fine Arts XX (9 March 1988), lot 759.