Ex Clain-Stefanelli, Van Vleuten, and Fenerly Bey Collections
Published in WSM and by Le Rider

CNG 109, Lot: 258. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos III ‘the Great’. 222-187 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.71 g, 12h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Struck circa 223-211/0 BC. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow in right hand, resting left hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; monograms to outer left and outer right. SC 1042.2; Le Rider, Antioche, Series 1, 110 (A6/P68) = WSM 1053β (this coin); HGC 9, 447u. Near EF, deep cabinet tone, minor die break on obverse. Well centered and in high relief.

From the MNL Collection. Ex CNG inventory 940299 (December 2012); Elvira Elisa Clain-Stefanelli Collection [sold as the Demarete Collection] (Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio 172, 13 November 2012), lot 11692; Van Vleuten Collection (Lampertz, February 1926), no. 455; Dr. Fenerly Bey du Phanar Collection (Egger XLI, 18 November 1912), lot 732.