ANTIOCHUS HIERAX SILVER TETRADRACHM – ISSUE OF PARIUM WITH UNLISTED MONOGRAM VARIANT TO BE PUBLISHED IN UPCOMING SC REVISION – NEAR XF GREEK SELEUCID KINGDOM COIN (Inv. 21376)

$2,500.00

21376. SELEUCID KINGDOM. ANTIOCHUS HIERAX, 242–227 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm, 17.03 g, 30 mm. Issue of Parium.
Obv. Diademed head of Antiochus II right. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY, Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding arrow in right hand and resting left hand on grounded bow,
SC 835.1 var. (same obverse die); Seyrig, Parion 24 (Obverse die I); HGC 9, 400a.
Near XF, bright surfaces, scarce emission.
This emission features an obverse die long known to numismatists, but pairs it with a reverse die involving a previously unknown monogram configuration for Hierax’s Antiochus II portrait series at Parium. Interestingly, the monogram combination is very similar (but not identical) to one found in Hierax’s “young king” portrait series (SC 836.7). This previously unknown variant issue will be listed in the forthcoming revised and expanded edition of Seleucid Coins, Part I.