AE 15 mm, 2.27 g, 12h, Tyre mint SE "NP" =BCE 163/2
SC 1580 (R2)
O: diad hd right with ends of diad curling on neck and up towards back of the hd (not straight as assumed in SC). beveled edge and dotted border.
R: limited inscription visible but should read on left ANTIOXOY curving to right and on the right
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ curving to the left. In the field on either side of the palm trunk is a partial N/P for the SE year.
This piece had been identified by the previous owner as Antiochos III SC 1081 and not questioned or identified further by CNG, but the lettering in the field and beveled edge indicated otherwise. It appears to be one of the nicer examples known of this type.
ex: Oliver Hoover Collection, Burlington ON c. 2003 (www.seleukidempire.org) misidentified as Alexander Balas
.ex: MNL Coll
ex: CNG
According to CNG "… the MNL Collection, (is) perhaps the finest
collection of coins of the Seleukid kings to be offered since the dispersal of
the Arthur Houghton Collection in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This offering
includes coins from many important collections, most notably Houghton, but also
Abramowitz, Bement, Charrin, Niggeler, Petrowicz, Pozzi, Seyrig, and Weber,
among others. In addition to containing many pedigreed examples, this
collection is also notable for the quantity of published examples it contains,
as well as the many rarities and unpublished varieties that will inevitably be
included in future additions to the Seleucid Coins catalog.” (CNG 109
Catalog Sept. 2018).
