Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 538. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $6750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos III, "the Great." 223-187 BC. AV Stater (8.55 gm, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Struck after 220 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 to outer left and right. SC 1159; ESM 242; SNG Spaer -; Houghton -. EF, minor marks in fields. Rare. ($5000)