Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 361. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.07 g, 11h). Kyme mint. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY, Herakles seated left on rock, lion's skin draped over rock, holding in right hand club set on ground, left hand on rock; to outer left, cup above monogram; monograms below royal title and name. SC 505.3; WSM 1523 (same dies as illustration); Houghton II 144 (same dies); SNG Spaer -. Near EF, lightly toned, minor die flaws on reverse. Artistic rendering of Herakles.