Description: Seleukid Kingdom, Seleukos II Kallinikos (246 - 226 BC). Head of Herakles right clad in lion's skin headdress / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣEΛEΥXOΥ; Apollo seated left on omphalos, examining arrow in right, resting left on grounded bow; c/m: bow.

Diameter: AE16 mm

Weight: 4,22 g

Grade: gF/gF

Attribution: Sear 6914; SNG Israel 443 var

Commentary: very rare countermark; well centered, dark olive patina

History: Omphalos was a stone standing ath the center of the world - the place where according to myth two egales sent by Zeus had met.

Article Number: 032-04-03-41652