★ A boldly struck portrait ★

Seleukid Kingdom. Seleukeia on Tigris. Antiochos I Soter 281-261 BC.
Tetradrachm AR

29mm., 17,00g.

Diademed head of Antiochos I to right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟXΟΥ, Apollo Delphios, nude but for chlamys draped from his waist, wearing laurel wreath and seated on omphalos to left, testing arrow with his right hand and resting his left on a bow leaning against the omphalos behind him, to left monogram of AP, monogram, to right.

good very fine

ESM 155, type 2; SC 379.3c.