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Greece/Seleucid; Antiochus II Theos BCE 261-246




AE 16 mm, 3.49 g, Unattributed, perhaps Cilician issue.

SC 568,  HSC 265  (R3), reference: Shown at British Museum in 1995 (this example may be the second known) Appear to be same dies as BM example as illustrated in SC 1 and HSC.  

Update 26-06-10: CNG is selling another more worn example ex: J.S. Wagner in EA236:331 (closing 7 July), so this appears to increase the census to three now known, which makes it still a very rare coin but rating an R2 using AH's rarity indicators.

O: Laureate hd of Apollo r., with curly sideburn, no border visible.

R: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ (above) ANTIO[XOY] below, caps of the Dioscuri, no border visible.


Ex: D. Alighieri Collection