ANTIOCHUS III SILVER TETRADRACHM – SEEMINGLY UNIQUE FOURREE IMITATION OF ΔΙ MINT – ABOUT VF GREEK SELEUCID KINGDOM COIN (Inv. 21154)

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21154. SELEUCID EMPIRE. ANTIOCHUS III ‘THE GREAT,’ 222–187 BC.
Silver/Bronze Fourrée Tetradrachm, 11.73 g, 27 mm. Contemporary imitation of the ΔΙ Mint in Southern or Eastern Syria, ca. 202 BC.
Obv. Diademed head of Antiochus III right with older portrait, short hair lying close to skull, bangs with light break on forehead. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY, Apollo seated left on omphalos, testing arrow in right hand, and resting left on grounded bow, ΔI in exergue.
Cf. SC 1112 for prototype; O. Hoover and A. Houghton, “Appendix 8: Plated Seleucid–Type Coins,” in SC 2.2 –.
About VF, various circulation marks, cracks in the silver plating reveal the bronze core. Possibly unique, this is the first documented fourée imitating an issue of the ΔΙ Mint, unlisted in Hoover and Houghton’s appendix on Seleucid–type fourées which catalogues 148 examples for all reigns.