Watch List notes:

SYRIA, SILVER TETRADRACHM OF ANTIOCHOS HIERAX, Lampsakos, ca. 240 BC, 16.956g, 1h. SC 855.1 = CSE 655 = MN 23, A15/P38 (this coin). Attractively toned. Perfectly centered and struck on a broad flan. With a fantastic portrait in the finest Hellenistic style. Choice extremely fine. Leu Numismatik 1994 (59) lot 148; former Arthur Houghton collection

Antiochos Hierax (Hawk), or Antiochos III, so called from his grasping and ambitious character, was the younger son of Antiochos II and Laodike I and separatist leader in the Seleucid kingdom, who ruled as king of Syria during his brother's reign.