137, Lot: 27. Estimate $200. Sold for $445. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos III ‘the Great’. 223-187 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.82 g). Uncertain mint in Commagene or N. Syria along the Upper Euphrates. After 211 BC. Diademed head right / Apollo seated left on omphalos, testing arrow and holding bow; monograms in outer fields. SC 1102 (this coin illustrated); Newell, ESM 260 (Seleucia; same dies); Houghton, CSE 976 (this coin). VF, toned, area of find patina on reverse.

From the Arthur Houghton Collection.