★ Pedigreed to 1904 ★

SELEUKID KINGS OF SYRIA. Antiochos III ‘the Great’, 222-187 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 27 mm, 17.00 g, 1 h), uncertain mint 70, perhaps in western Mesopotamia or in Asia Minor. 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. SC pl. 58, 1141.2 = WSM 1687 and pl. LXXXIII, 9 ( this coin ). Very rare. Beautifully toned and with an unusually lifelike portrait. Small flan crack, otherwise, good very fine.

From the collections of Regierungsrat Dr. iur. Hans Krähenbühl and Prof. L. White King, Schulman 56, 26 September 1904, 531.

This issue is stylistically closely connected to lot 132 below.