Ex Houghton Collection
Published by Le Rider and in CSE

CNG 109, Lot: 259. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos III ‘the Great’. 222-187 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.89 g, 12h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Struck circa 197-192/0 BC. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow in right hand, resting left hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; no control marks. SC 1045.5; Le Rider, Antioche, Series 4, 277 (A30/P204) = CSE 81 (this coin); HGC 9, 447u. EF, old collection tone, a couple minor flan flaws on reverse. High relief.

From the MNL Collection, purchased from Perseus Ancient Coins, December 2011. Ex Lanz 40 (25 May 1987), lot 383; Arthur Houghton Collection; Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 246 (August 1964), no. 8.