386. SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos I Soter. 281-261 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 17.24 g, 6h). Ekbatana mint. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing three arrows and resting hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; to inner left, é above and Ö below arm; at feet, forepart of horse grazing left. SC 409.2e1; ESM –; HGC 9, 128h. Lightly toned. EF. ($1500) From the MNL Collection. Ex Berk BBS 171 (27 October 2010), lot 169.
387. SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.95 g, 11h). Myrina mint. Diademed head of Antiochos I right (of ‘rejuvenated’ portrait model) / ∫Å%5¬EW% Å@t5ocoU, Herakles seated left on rock draped with lion skin, placing right hand on club set on ground to left, left hand on rock; amphora to outer right, ÷ and arrowhead right in exergue. SC Ad116 (same dies as illustration); HGC 9, 241b corr. (SC numbers). Toned, a little porosity. Good VF. Well centered. Extremely rare, only one other recorded. ($2000) From the MNL Collection, purchased from Apollo Numismatics, March 2014.
388. SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 16.55 g, 1h). Sardes mint. Diademed head of Antiochos I right / ∫Å%5¬EW% Å@-t5ocoU, Apollo Delphios, nude, testing two arrows in his right hand, left hand holding tip of bow set on ground to right, seated left on omphalos; D and 5 in exergue. SC 518d var. (one arrow); WSM 1387 var. (one arrow); HGC 9, 236f; Hunterian 27 var. (one arrow; same obv. die). Lightly toned. EF. High relief portrait. Apparently unique variety with two arrows. ($3000) From the MNL Collection, purchased from Gorny & Mosch, January 2012. Ex G. Hirsch 275 (22 September 2011), lot 3987; Giessener Münzhandlung 36 (8 April 1987), lot 272. Of all the issues of SC 518, 518d is the only one recorded with Apollo testing only one arrow. However, the present piece clearly shows two arrows; apparently the only example known.
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