CNG 109, Lot: 270. Estimate $200. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos III ‘the Great’. 222-187 BC. Æ (22mm, 8.95 g, 5h). Uncertain eastern mint. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow in right hand, resting left hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; no control marks. SC 1286 (this coin referenced and illustrated); cf. HGC 9, 479 (larger denomination). Near VF, brown surfaces, slightly off center on obverse. Extremely rare.

From the MNL Collection, purchased from Jencek Historical Enterprise, March 2013. Ex W. K. Raymond Collection.