SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos Hierax. Circa 242-227 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 17.10 g, 12h). Probably Phokaia mint. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANT-IOXOY, Apollo, nude, testing arrow in his right hand, left hand holding tip of bow set on ground to right, seated left on omphalos adorned with horzontal pelleted bands between linear bands; to outer left, OΣ reading downward; to inner left, head of griffin left. SC 895.1 (this coin referenced and illustrated); WSM –; HGC 9, 403e; CSE 677 (this coin). Toned, small area of flat strike. Good VF. Extremely rare. From the Pythagoras Collection. Ex Arthur H. Houghton Collection.
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