Ex Bernert and Houghton Collections

CNG 109, Lot: 243. Estimate $750. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos Hierax. Circa 242-227 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.57 g, 10h). Parion mint. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and holding grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; in exergue, [head of Pan right] and bull butting right. SC 836.3 (this coin referenced); Seyrig, Parion 28 (dies III/D’); CSE 657 (this coin); HGC 9, 403a. VF, toned, some roughness in spots. Rare.

From the MNL Collection. Ex George Bernert Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 106, 13 September 2017), lot 66; Arthur Houghton Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 61, 25 September 2002), lot 816.