SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.89 g, 11h). Uncertain mint in Mesopotamia. Diademed head right / Herakles, holding club set on ground, seated left on rock draped with lion's skin; uncertain monogram in exergue. Cf. HGC 9, 238 (for type); otherwise, unpublished. Minor flan flaws, scattered light marks, die break on obverse. VF. From the MNL Collection.The style of the obverse and reverse is similar to a variety of issues struck at mints in Mesopotamia during the reign of Antiochos II, but no die match to any of them is presently known.
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