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Session Six - Tuesday, June 3, 2014 approx. 1:00 PM
3351
Seleukid Kingdom. Seleukos II Kallinikos. Silver Tet-
radrachm (16.68 g), 246-226 BC.
Perhaps Ephesos. Dia-
demed head of Seleukos II right.
Reverse
:
[
]
, Apollo standing left, holding arrow and leaning
on tall tripod behind; in inner left field, A
monogram. SC 672-
1; WSM 1000; HGC 9, 303j.
Very Fine
.
Estimated Value ................................................... $500 - 600
F
ANTASTIC
S
TYLE
A
NTIOCHOS
III. S
ILVER
T
ETRADRACHM
223-187 BC
Enlargement
3352
Seleukid Kingdom. Antiochos III. Silver Tetradrachm (17.0 g), 223-187 BC.
Uncertain mint in western Asia Minor, perhaps Kyme,
probably ca. 203 BC. Diademed head of Antiochos III right.
Reverse:
/
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Y, Apollo seated left on omphalos, testing arrow
and resting hand on grounded bow; in outer left field, eagle's head left. SC 964; WSM 1698; CSE 678 (same dies); HGC 9, 447d.
Very Rare.
Well struck on a huge flan of excellent metal and style. The portrait struck in high relief.
Superb Extremely Fine
.
A very rare coin that is seldom offered, and much superior to the Houghton specimen with which it shares its dies.
This portrait was imitated in Phrygia (cf. SC 1002), and according to Houghton and Lorber both the original coins and the imitations are found
overstruck. Newell was able to show that one of the imitations was overstruck on a tetradrachm of Antiochos III from Susa that is datable to
the period before Antiochos'expedition to the Upper Satrapies. The eagle symbol found on the reverse of this tetradrachm was the civic badge
of Kyme in Aiolis (cf. SNG Copenhagen 31), which formerly had been a Seleukid possession and may have been recovered by Antiochos III in
the campaign of 197 BC.
Estimated Value ........................................................................................................................................................... $10,000 - 15,000
3353
Seleukid Kingdom. Antiochos III. Silver Tetradrachm
(17.03 g), 223-187 BC.
I mint (probably Damascus), ca.
197-187 BC. Diademed head of Antiochos III right.
Reverse:
[
]
, Apollo seated left on omphalos, test-
ing arrow and resting hand on grounded bow; in exergue,
.
SC 1113.1; ESM 608; HGC 9, 447y. Excellent portrait and struck
in high relief. Lightly toned.
Extremely Fine
.
Estimated Value .................................................$800 - 1,000
