AE 12 mm, 2.42 g, 3h, Uncertain Mint 23, in Eastern Syria or Mesopotamia (c. BCE 280 per Newell)
SC 373
WSM 1133
(this example is better than those depicted by Newell)
O: tripod
altar on a shield dotted border around
R: bow case
with BAΣI on the right
going down and ANTI on the left going down as well. No control marks.
Hoover rates
this item as R3 (#201) but one can locate several examples on acsearch.info or on
CNG’s site, which lowers the rarity to perhaps R2 if not R1 for this piece. In
WSM alone, Newell lists five examples.
