SC, CSE, and HGC Plate Coin
Ex Machtens and Houghton Collections
Published in ‘Lampsacus’ and Les Monnaies de l’Antiquiteì

CNG 109, Lot: 245. Estimate $7500. Sold for $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos Hierax. Circa 242-227 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29.5mm, 16.95 g, 1h). Lampsakos mint. Diademed and draped bust of Antiochos II right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY, Apollo Delphios, nude, seated left on omphalos, testing arrow in his right hand, left hand on bow set on ground to right; tripod in exergue. SC 855.1 (this coin referenced and illustrated); Houghton, Lampsacus, Series 6, Group B, dies A15/P38, pl. 8, 5 = CSE 655 = M.-M. Bendenoun, Les Monnaies de l’Antiquiteì. Splendeurs et teìmoignages (Geneva, 2006), no. 86 (this coin); HGC 9, 401 (this coin illustrated). Choice EF, attractively toned. Of the finest style.

From the MNL Collection. Ex 51 Gallery (13 November 2015), lot 39; Leu 59 (17 May 1994), lot 148; Arthur Houghton Collection.