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A bronze coin of the Seleucid Antiochos I with a reverse showing Apollo seated on the Omphalos Coin Type: Bronze AE18 of the Seleucid Antiochos I, 280-261 BCE
Mint and Date: Antioch.
Size and Weight: 155mm x 18mm, 3.48g
Obverse: Head of Antiochos right with elderly features.
Reverse: (B)AΣILEΩΣ ANTIOXOY
Nude Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding arrows in left hand, resting right on bow. Monograms to left and right.
Provenance: demitrakis (eBay), May 2008
Ref: GCV 6878
BW Ref: 001 038 128
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