Freeman & Sear - Gemini I, Session 1 Lot: 259

ARABIA OR THE PERSIAN GULF REGION: Uncertain mint. 
3rd-2nd century BC. AR tetradrachm (15.93 gm).

Head of young Herakles right wearing lionskin headdress, of barbarous style.
Barbarized legend, crude Apollo seated left on omphalos, 
examining arrow held in right hand and resting left hand on 
grounded bow. 
Unpublished. 

The imitative legend on the reverse is reduced to a zigzag on the right, but a prominent X before Apollo's feet suggests an illiterate attempt to replicate a legend naming 
an Antiochus. 

Sold for $425 USD [ approx 323 EUR, 225.25 GBP ] 

Gemini I Auction Closed Jan 11-12, 2005. 

Re-used by permission of Freeman & Sear and Harlan J Berk