421, Lot: 297. Estimate $300. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos III ‘the Great’. 222-187 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.9mm, 16.92 g, 1h). Alexandrine types struck in the name of Antiochos. Susa mint. Struck 223-222 BC (First reign, before Molon). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in left field and below throne. SC 1205; ESM 379; HGC 9, 445. VF, lightly toned, light marks and scratches, struck from a worn obverse die. Rare.
From the MNL Collection. Ex Numismatik Naumann 53 (7 May 2017), lot 375.