Sale: CNG 60, Lot: 890. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 May 2002.  Sold For $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleukid Kings. Antiochos I. 280-261 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.14 gm). Ekbatana mint. Struck 261-256 BC. Diademed head of Antiochos right / Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding three arrows and bow; two monograms before; forepart of a horse grazing at feet. SNG Spaer 316 var. (different lower monogram); Newell, ESM, 528, pl. xxxix, 5 (same obverse die); Houghton, CSE, 1137-1139 var. (same). EF, bold, powerful portrait. ($1000)