CNG 109, Lot: 267. Estimate $200. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos III ‘the Great’. 222-187 BC. Æ (16.5mm, 4.51 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint, second reign. Struck circa 220-187 BC. Jugate Apollo (in three-quarter profile) and Artemis right / Tripod; uncertain monogram to outer left, thyrsos entwined with serpent to inner right. SC 1189b (this coin referenced and illustrated); HGC 9, 543 (this coin illustrated). Near VF, brown surfaces, a few light cleaning marks. Very rare.

From the MNL Collection, purchased from Jencek Historical Enterprise, March 2012. Ex W. K. Raymond Collection.