Watch List notes:

SELEUKID KINGS OF SYRIA. Antiochos I Soter, 281-261 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 30 mm, 17.15 g, 12 h), Sardes, circa 276-271. Diademed head of Antiochos I to right. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ - ANTIOXOY Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding arrow in his right hand and resting his left on grounded bow; in exergue, AΘ AΣ. F. Imhoof-Blumer: Zur Münzkunde der Seleukiden, in: NZ 1913, p. 181, 36 and Tf. II, 110 (this coin). SC 325a. K. Schefold: Meisterwerke griechischer Kunst. Basel, 1960, p. 305, 540 (this coin). WSM 1372β. A lovely coin with a beautiful Sardian portrait and an illustrious pedigree. The obverse struck somewhat off center, otherwise, good very fine.


From the collection of Regierungsrat Dr. iur. Hans Krähenbühl, ex Münzen & Medaillen AG 88, 17 May 1999, 268 (with original dealer's flip) and Münzen & Medaillen AG XIII, 17-19 June 1954, 1194, and from the collection of F. Imhoof-Blumer (1838-1920).