Very Rare Antiochos III Tetradrachm without Controls

334, Lot: 164. Estimate $300. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos III ‘the Great’. 222-187 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.63 g, 12h). Uncertain mint 49 in Phrygia (Apamea?). Series 2. Diademed head right / Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding arrow and bow; no control marks. SC 1001 = CSE 674 var. (with control mark; same obv. die); HGC 9, 448. Good VF, lightly toned, some die wear on obverse, scrapes and area of minor roughness on reverse. Unpublished variety from a very rare series.