Watch List notes:

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos III 'the Great'. 222-187 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 17.11 g, 1h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Struck circa 204-197 BC. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY, Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos, testing arrow in his right hand, left hand on bow set on ground to right; monogram to outer left. SC 1044.1; Le Rider, Antioche, Series III-IV, 30–2 (A4/P21); WSN 1089b; HGC 9, 447u; SNG Spaer 538–9 (same obv. die); Dewing 2575 (same obv. die); Gulbenkian 1033 (same obv, die); Hermitage Sale II 1443 (same obv. die). Near EF, attractive old cabinet tone, with slight iridescence.


Ex Dr. Patrick Tan Collection; Nomos 11 (9 October 2015), lot 130.