227. SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 16.97 g, 12h). Alexandreia Troas mint. Head right, wearing winged diadem / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and placing hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; â to outer left, û to outer right; in exergue, horse grazing right. SC 491.1; HGC 9, 238e. Good VF, lightly toned, a few marks, nick on obverse. Rare. ($2000) From the MNL Collection, purchased from B. Franceschi, March 2016.
Ex Raymond and Houghton Collections SC and CSE Plate Coin
228. SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.94 g, 11h). Phokaia mint. Diademed head of Antiochos I right / ∫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; no control marks. SC 510.2 (this coin referenced and illustrated); CSE 665 (this coin); HGC 9, 241d. Good VF, attractive deep iridescent tone. Very rare. ($3000) From the MNL Collection. Ex Jencek Historical Enterprise inventory Y02759 (December 2012); W. K. Raymond Collection; Arthur Houghton Collection, purchased from Robert Hecht, 1974; Kastner IV (27 November 1973), lot 186.
Published in SC and CSE Among Houghton’s First Collection Coins
229. SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 17.00 g, 12h). Phokaia mint. Diademed head of Antiochos I right / Herakles seated left on rock draped with lion skin, placing right hand on club set on ground to left, left hand on rock; to outer left, head of griffin left above die erasure above d(?). SC 511.2 (this coin referenced); CSE 623 (this coin); HGC 9, 241d. VF, toned, a few light scratches under tone. Very rare. ($2000) From the MNL Collection, purchased from Eucratides Ancient Numismatics, November 2009. Arthur Houghton Collection, purchased from Münzen und Medaillen AG (via Pierre Strauss), 4 May 1963; G. Hirsch XXXIV (21 February 1963), lot 1309a. Arthur Houghton remarked to MNL that this coin was among the very first that he purchased for his collection.
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