305, Lot: 157. Estimate $200. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos I Soter. 281-261 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 17.12 g, 5h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Diademed head right / Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding arrow and bow; AP monogram to outer left, HP monogram to outer right. SC 379.3a; HGC 9, 128g; U. Wartenberg & J.H. Kagan, “Some comments on a new hoard from the Balkan area,” Travaux Le Rider, p. 399, 92 (this coin, illustrated on pl. 44). VF, toned, test cut and crescent countermark on obverse.

Ex 1990s Balkan Area Hoard (CH IX, 196).