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Seleukid Empire, Antiochos II Æ 16mm. Aï Khanoum mint, circa 261-246 BC. Laureate head of Zeus to right / Horizontal thunderbolt; BAΣIΛEΩΣ above, Θ and ANTIOXOY below. SC 625. 3.87g, 17mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Excessively Rare; the second known example of this variety, and one of just three known for the type.
"The types relate thematically to the thundering Zeus of the Diodoti. This variety was known for twenty years from a single specimen found in Afghanistan. Holt did not list it as a Diodotid issue, and in SCB Kritt relegated it to a footnote, regarding it as too uncertain to include in his catalogue of Seleucid bronze types from Bactria. But in Dynastic Transitions, pp.36-40, Kritt reported a second specimen with the control Θ, reinforcing the suggestive provenance of the first. In addition he identified a new Zeus/thunderbolt bronze issue attributable [to] the second Diodotid mint (cat. no. 638). These presumably parallel and contemporary emissions have important implications for the reconstruction of Diodotid numismatic history..." - SC, p. 217.
Very Fine. Excessively Rare; the second known example of this variety, and one of just three known for the type.
"The types relate thematically to the thundering Zeus of the Diodoti. This variety was known for twenty years from a single specimen found in Afghanistan. Holt did not list it as a Diodotid issue, and in SCB Kritt relegated it to a footnote, regarding it as too uncertain to include in his catalogue of Seleucid bronze types from Bactria. But in Dynastic Transitions, pp.36-40, Kritt reported a second specimen with the control Θ, reinforcing the suggestive provenance of the first. In addition he identified a new Zeus/thunderbolt bronze issue attributable [to] the second Diodotid mint (cat. no. 638). These presumably parallel and contemporary emissions have important implications for the reconstruction of Diodotid numismatic history..." - SC, p. 217.