★ A surprisingly individual portrait ★

SELEUKID KINGS OF SYRIA. Seleukos IV Philopator, 187-175 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 29 mm, 17.28 g, 12 h), Antiochia on the Orontes. Diademed head of Seleukos IV to right. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ - ΣΕΛΕΥΚΟΥ Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding arrow in his right hand and resting his left on grounded bow; to outer left, filleted palm frond above aphlaston; in exergue, monogram of ΔI. SC 1313.3. A boldly struck and attractive coin with a surprisingly individual portrait. Thin flan crack, otherwise, nearly extremely fine.