Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 532. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos Hierax. 246-227 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.91 gm, 12h). Ilion mint. Diademed head right / BASILEWS ANTIOCOU, Apollo seated left on omphalos, nude but for slight drapery on right thigh, holding arrow in right hand, left hand resting on bow; owl standing left in exergue. SC 868 (same obverse die as plate coin); WSM 1603, pl. LXXVI, 12 (same obverse die); SNG Spaer -; Houghton -. EF, lightly toned, patch of die rust on reverse. Fine style. ($1500)