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Seleucid Kings of Syria
Gold Stater. (8.54 g), 222-187 BC
Antiochos III, “The Great”, Seleucid King, 222-187 BC
SC 1159; ESM 242; HGC 9, 442c; Sunrise 193 (this coin). Superb Extremely Fine.
Seleukeia on the Tigris. Struck circa 211-208 BC. Diademed head right of Antiochos III right. Reverse:
BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTI-OXOY, Apollo seated to left on omphalos, holding arrow and resting left hand on
bow which is set on ground; monogram to outer left and right.
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Seleucid Kings of Syria
Silver Tetradrachm. (17.01 g), 222-187 BC
Antiochos III, “The Great”, Seleucid King, 222-187 BC
SC 964; WSM 1698; CSE 678 (same dies); HGC 9, 447d. Superb Extremely Fine.
Kyme(?). Struck circa 203 BC. Diademed head right of Antiochos III right. Reverse: BAΣIΛEΩΣ
AN-TIOXOY, Apollo seated to left on omphalos, holding arrow and resting left hand on bow which is
set on ground; monogram to outer left and right.
Well struck on a huge flan of excellent metal and style. The portrait struck in high relief. Superb Ex-
tremely 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 Seleucid possession and may have been recovered by Antiochos III in the campaign of 197 BC.