Watch List notes:

SELEUKID KINGS OF SYRIA. Antiochos II Theos, 261-246 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 30 mm, 17.08 g, 12 h), uncertain mint 30, probably in Northern Mesopotamia. Diademed head of Antiochos II to right. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ - ANTIOXOY Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding arrow in his right hand and resting his left on grounded bow; to outer left and right, monograms. Le Rider, Antioche, Groupe 3, 4 (this coin, A1/P1). SC 580.6a. WSM 1139ϝ and pl. XXXIII, 17 (this coin). Rare and with an unusual and impressive portrait. Some doubling on the reverse, otherwise, good very fine.


From the collection of Regierungsrat Dr. iur. Hans Krähenbühl and from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and of John Ward, Sotheby's, 4-5 April 1973, 663.