453, Lot: 122. Estimate $150. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos III ‘the Great’. 222-187 BC. AR Drachm (16mm, 4.07 g, 12h). Apameia on the Orontes mint(?). Diademed head right / Elephant standing right; no control marks. SC 1065 var. (unlisted with no markings); cf. Houghton,
Elephants, Group 7, Type A, 23–75, obv. die a1; HGC 9, 453a; CNG E-426, lot 219 (same rev. die). Toned, deposits, struck with worn reverse die, light scratches on reverse. VF.