Watch List notes:

Seleucid Kingdom. Antiochus II. 261-246 BC. Tetradrachm, 16.86g (7h). Seleucia, 261 BC or soon thereafter. Obv: Diademed head of Antiochus I right. Dotted border. Rx: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding arrow, left hand resting on bow. In outer fields, monograms. Dotted border. SC 587.4b. ESM 189, pl. XVI, 10. Good VF



It is widely agreed that the finest and most moving numismatic portraits of Antiochus I were those produced, like this one and the next two lots, by the mint of Seleucia shortly after his death, early in the reign of his son Seleucus II