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LOT 2951
Seleucid Empire, Antiochos III AR Drachm. 222-187 BC.
Uncertain mint of the periphery of the Seleucid empire. Diademed head to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANT-IOXOY, Apollo Delphios seated on omphalos to left, holding arrow with his right hand and resting his left on a bow leaning against the omphalos behind him; AP and MYP monograms placed sideways to outer left. SC 1292 corr. (reading of the monograms) = BnF, R 2176; HGC 9, 452o (R3). Very Fine. Exceedingly rare.(4.11gr, 17mm, 3h.).
Provenance
UK private collection before 2000.
Acquired on the UK art market.
Property of a London gentleman.
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