Triton XVII, Lot: 370. Estimate $2000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos Hierax. Circa 242-227 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 17.00 g, 2h). Alexandreia Troas mint. Head right, wearing winged diadem / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANT-IOXOY, Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos, testing arrow in his right hand and holding bow in his left; monogram to inner right; in exergue, horse grazing left and monogram. SC 875.1 var. (monogram in exergue); ESM 1568 var. (same); CSE –; SNG Spaer –; HGC 9, 399g. EF, lightly toned. Lovely high relief portrait. Unpublished variety.