136, Lot: 46. Estimate $300. Sold for $295. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos Hierax. 246-227 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 17.07 g). Lampsakos mint. Diademed head right / Nude Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding arrow in right hand, left hand resting on bow; monogram in exergue. SC 848.1 = CSE 654 (this coin); SNG Spaer -; WSM - (same obverse die as 1461). Good VF, attractively toned with underlying luster, obverse flan flaw across portrait.

From the Arthur Houghton Collection.

Obverse die transferred from Abydos.