Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 536. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos III, "the Great." 223-187 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.89 gm, 12h). Uncertain mint in Mesopotamia. Struck after 197 BC. Diademed head right / BASILEWS ANTI-OCOU, Apollo seated left on omphalos, nude but for slight drapery on right thigh, holding arrow in right hand, left hand resting on bow; monogram in exergue. SC 1132.2; WSM 855b var. (same obverse die, different monogram); SNG Spaer -; Houghton -; Mektepini 637. Good VF, toned, well centered. ($750)