Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXVIIAuction date: 9 January 2024
Lot number: 329

Price realized: 7,500 USD   (Approx. 6,869 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
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Lot description:


SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos III 'the Great'. 222-187 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.93 g, 12h). "ΔI mint" in southern or eastern Syria. Struck circa 202-187 BC. Diademed head right (Type CII); ΔI to left / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY, Apollo, nude but for drapery around waist, testing arrow in extended right hand, and placing left hand on grounded bow to right, seated left on omphalos; ΔI in exergue. SC 1109.2 (this coin referenced and illustrated); ESM 605; HGC 9, 447y; CSE 1171 (this coin). Attractively toned, minor marks on reverse. EF. Well centered on a broad flan.

Ex LHS 102 (29 April 2008), lot 307; Leu 81 (16 May 2001), lot 331; Arthur Houghton Collection (Numismatic Fine Arts XVIII, 31 March 1987), lot 324.


Estimate: 1500 USD