CNG 109, Lot: 266. Estimate $750. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos III ‘the Great’. 222-187 BC. Æ (26mm, 15.70 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint, second reign. Struck circa 220-187 BC. Laureate head of Apollo facing slightly left / Apollo standing left, testing arrow and resting left hand on grounded shield; [monograms to outer left and right]. SC 1177; HGC 9, 503. VF, dark green-brown patina, some roughness. Exceptional portrait for issue. Rare.
From the MNL Collection. Ex Nomos Obolos 3 (15 November 2015), lot 233.