445, Lot: 214. Estimate $300. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos III ‘the Great’. 222-187 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.21 g, 12h). “Rose” mint (Edessa?). Struck circa 222-211 BC. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and resting hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; monogram to outer left. SC 1121.1 var. (monogram); ESM 392, dies A1/P2 corr. (monogram); HGC 9, 447bb; Babelon, Rois 360 = BN notice no. FRBNF41818542 (same dies). VF, lightly toned.

This coin displays a variation of the monogram that has been known from published examples, but apparently misread by prior authors. Here, the two vertical bars of the internal N-like shape is omitted from the upper part of the monogram, so the monogram appears be composed of a retrograde Z surmounting an Ω. The Babelon coin in the BN is available for viewing on the Internet at the ANS’s Seleucid Coins Online database (numismatics.org/SCO/sc.1.1121).