Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 290. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-226 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.69 g, 4h). Ekbatana mint. Struck circa 228-226 BC. Diademed head right / BASILEWS SELE-UKOU, Apollo Delphios standing left on omphalos, testing arrow in his right hand, left arm resting on tripod behind; to inner left, monogram above horse’s head left; monogram to outer right. SC 811.2; ESM 556; Babelon, Rois -; SNG Spaer -; Houghton 1153. Near EF, toned, areas of minor porosity.