Published in SC, CSE, and HGC

CNG 109, Lot: 252. Estimate $3000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos Hierax. Circa 242-227 BC. AR Drachm (18.5mm, 4.16 g, 1h). Magnesia on the Maeander mint(?). Diademed head of Antiochos II right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANT-IOXOY, Apollo Delphios, drapery around legs, seated left on omphalos, testing bow in right hand, resting left hand on ompalos; monogram to outer left and outer right. SC 909 (this coin referenced and illustrated); CSE 620 (this coin); HGC 9, 408 (this coin illustrated). Near EF, deep gray tone with slight iridescence, hairline flan crack, a few marks and light deposits. Extremely rare.

From the MNL Collection. Ex Roma E-Sale 34 (18 February 2017), lot 117; Arthur Houghton Collection (Leu 45, 26 May 1988), lot 262; Kastner 6 (26 November 1974), lot 175.