ANTIOCHUS III SILVER TETRADRACHM – ISSUE OF TARSUS OVERSTRUCK ON AN EARLIER SELEUCID TETRADRACHM – CHOICE VF SELEUCID KINGDOM COIN (Inv. 21486)

$1,500.00

21486. SELEUCID KINGDOM. ANTIOCHUS III, 222–187 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm, 17.16 g, 28 mm. Issue of Tarsus or possibly Issus.
Obv. Diademed head of Antiochus III right within a finely dotted border. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOY, Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding arrow in right hand and resting left hand on grounded bow, A in outer left field, ΠA monogram in outer right field, butting bull left in exergue.
SC 1035; HGC 9, 447s.
Ex CNG Electronic Auction 472, 7/15/2020, lot 130 = Roma Numismatics E-Sale 46, 6/5/2018, lot 306 (in both cases the overstrike was unnoticed by the cataloguers).
Choice VF, struck from high relief dies, with traces of overstriking.
This interesting coin appears to have been struck over an earlier issue naming a King Antiochus. Traces of the hair of the undertype’s portrait are visible on the obverse behind the head of Antiochus III, as are traces of the royal name (…XOY) below the monogram in the left field of the reverse.