★ A beautiful and very well pedigreed tetradrachm of Antiochos III with a noble portrait ★

SELEUKID KINGS OF SYRIA. Antiochos III ‘the Great’, 222-187 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 30 mm, 17.16 g, 12 h), Tarsos, circa 216-213 (?). Diademed head of Antiochos III to right. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ - ANTIOXOY Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding arrow in his right hand and resting his left on grounded bow; to outer left and right, monograms; in exergue, bow in bowcase. SC 1026.2. WSM 1262. Boldly struck in high relief and with a particularly noble portrait. Good very fine.

From the collection of Regierungsrat Dr. iur. Hans Krähenbühl, ex Leu 54, 28 April 1992, 168 and Hess-Leu 19, 12-13 April 1962, 347, and from the collection of Major-General H.L. Haughton, Sotheby's, 30 April-1 May 1958, 175.

Houghton & Lorber tentatively associate this emission with the financing of Antiochos' campaign in Asia Minor in 216-213 BC, during which the king defeated the usurper Achaios and had him mercilessly executed in 213 BC.