Ex Rider, Wilkinson, Lockett, and Pozzi Collections

Triton XXII, Lot: 308. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos III ‘the Great’. 222-187 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 17.25 g, 12h). Tarsos mint. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTI-OXOY, Apollo Delphios, nude, testing arrow in his right hand, left hand holding tip of bow set on ground to right, seated left on omphalos; to outer left, monogram above torch; monogram to outer right, club in exergue. SC 1026.3; WSM 1263ε = SNG Lockett 3115 = Pozzi 2949 (this coin); HGC 9, 447r; Walcher de Molthein 2910 (same dies). VF, toned, a few cleaning marks under the tone.

From the MNL Collection. Ex Dennis Rider Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 375, 1 June 2016), lot 433; Dr. J. S. Wilkinson Collection (Malter 49, 15 November 1992), lot 869; Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Greek Part IV, Glendining, 21 February 1961), lot 2573; Prof. S. Pozzi Collection (Naville I, 14 March 1921), lot 2949.