Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1019. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $3600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.01 g, 11h). Lysimacheia mint. Diademed head of Antiochos I right / BASILEWS ANTI-OCOU, Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos; to outer left, head of lion right. SC 482.2; Le Rider, Lysimachie dies D1/R1; WSM 1610, pl. 77, 8 (same dies); SNG Spaer -; Houghton -. EF. Struck from artistic dies. Very rare, only one example recorded by Le Rider. ($3000)