View source for 16960 - Asia Minor (uncertain mint) (Antiochus Hierax) (tetradrachm Antiochus/Apollo) over Seleucus II (Seleucus/Apollo) (CNG, 97, Sept. 2014, 287)

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|Image overstriking coin=2395 - Uncertain mint in Asia Minor (Antiochus Hierax?).png
|Image reference overstriking coin=https://pro.coinarchives.com/a/lotviewer.php?LotID=703895&AucID=1303&Lot=287
|Image overstruck variety=SC I, n° 931.png
|Image reference overstruck variety=https://numismatics.org/sco/id/sc.1.931
|Sale=Classical Numismatic Group, 97, 17 Sept. 2014, 287.
|Obverse description=Male head right with youthful features, wearing diadem with ends falling straight and parallel
|Reverse legend=BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTI-OXOY
|Reverse legend language=Greek
|Reverse description=Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos, holding arrow and bow; no control marks. Unpublished. Good VF, lightly toned, light marks and scratches
|Mint=Asia Minor (uncertain mint)
|Ancient region=asia minor
|Authority=Antiochus Hierax (Seleucid usurper, 246-227 BC); Seleucid Dynasty (312-63 BC)
|Date from=242 BCE
|Date to=227 BCE
|Period=Hellenistic
|Metal=Silver
|Weight=15.47
|Diameter=31
|Axis=1
|Denomination=tetradrachm
|Standard=Attic
|Overstruck obverse description=Diademed head of Seleucus III right
|Overstruck reverse legend=BAΣIΛ[ΕΩΣ] ΣE[ΛΕYΚΟΥ]
|Overstruck reverse legend language=Greek
|Overstruck reverse description=Apollo standing left, leaning elbow on tripod (visible: Apollo’s head and the top of the tripod)
|Overstruck authority=Seleucid Dynasty (312-63 BC); Seleukos II Kallinikos (Seleucid king, 246-225 BC)
|Overstruck date from=246 BCE
|Overstruck date to=225 BCE
|Overstruck period=Hellenistic
|Overstruck denomination=tetradrachm
|Overstruck standard=Attic
|Coin series reference overstruck=SC II, n° 931
|Coin series web reference overstruck=https://numismatics.org/sco/id/sc.1.931
|Frequency of overstrikes=exceptional
|Level of confidence=strong
|Remarks="The undertype is most almost certainly a coin of Seleukos II [see SC II p. 666, C931], and although SC 936 might belong to the time of Seleukos III, the traces of the right-side monogram on the undertype are not consistent with the monograms of that issue). The identification of the issuer as Antiochos Hierax is not certain, but seems most likely, as the coin portraiture of Antiochos III is well developed, and the portrait on the present coin does not fit in this scheme. If the coin is of Hierax, it may suggest that he had a program to recoin his rival Seleukos II’s coinage by overstriking it".
}}