Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 671. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $345. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Interregnal coinage (Seleukos II). Circa 246-244 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.88 gm). Mint associated with Antioch. Diademed head right / Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding arrow and bow. SC 641; cf. Le Rider, Antioche 31-35 (A4/P?); WSM 1144m (same obverse die); SNG Spaer 413. Near VF. Scarce. ($300)

These "Soter" tetradrachms were most likely struck by partisans of Seleukos II during their struggle to secure Antioch for their king against the forces of Ptolemy III, who had occupied the Syrian capital.