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Auction: 9026 - Ancient. English, Foreign Coins & Com. Medals
Lot: 864

Kingdom of Syria, Antiochos Hierax (c.242-227 BC), AR Tetradrachm, 16.32g, Ilium (Troy), diademed head right, rev. baÓiËeÙÓ antioxoy, Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding arrow and bow, owl symbol on left (Seleucid Coins 864(2); Mektepini hoard (IGCH 1410) 218; Newell, WSM, 1597), very rare issue, only four others noted and tentatively attributed by Newell to Sigeum while also suggesting Ilium as a possible location for its issue, a few cleaning scratches, about very fine Estimate £ 400-500  

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