Lot 2111
Lot 32111 > SELEUCID KINGDOM. Antiochus III the Great (222-187 BC). AR tetradrachm (30mm, 16.62 gm, 12h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 4/5. "Sardes" (really a Phrygian mint, probably Laodicea on the Lycus), series 3, from 203 BC. Diademed head of Antiochus III right with youthful features but very shallow eye, break in bangs indicating incipient baldness at temple, horn over ear, one diadem end waving upward, the other falling straight behind; bead-and-reel border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ / ANTI-OXOY, Apollo seated left on omphalus, testing arrow in right hand, left hand on plain grounded bow right behind. SC -, cf. 998 (obverse die of 997 and 998.1-4). No examples listed in SC for this obverse with no controls on the reverse and Apollo seated left.
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