Elegant Portrait

Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 415. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.18 g, 12h). Magnesia on the Maeander mint. Diademed head of Antiochos I right / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos, holding arrow and bow; AΣK in exergue. SC 540.4 (same obv. die as illustration). Near EF, toned. Fine style.

Ex Kastner 4 (27 November 1973), lot 187.