SELEUKID KINGS. Antiochos III ‘the Great’, 222-187 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 30 mm, 17.15 g, 12 h), Antiochia on the Orontes, 204-197. Diademed head of Antiochos III to right. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ - ANTIOXOY Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding arrow in his right hand and resting his left on grounded bow; to left, tripod. SC 1044.2. Traces of overstriking and with slight roughness on the reverse, otherwise, extremely fine.


This coin was overstruck on an earlier Seleukid tetradrachm, with the head of Apollo of the host coin still clearly visible in the exergue of the reverse.