Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 788. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $655. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.98 g, 11h). Kyme mint. Diademed head right / Herakles seated left on rock, lion's skin draped over rock, holding club set on ground; cup to outer left, monogram below royal title, E and monogram in exergue. SC 505.2a. VF, lightly toned. Rare.

From the James E. Cain Collection.