Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 582. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $1640. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-225 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.11 g, 12h). Uncertain mint. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios standing left, leaning on tripod and testing arrow; two monograms to inner left. SC 725 corr. (lower monogram); SNG Spaer 449 (same obv. die). Good VF, toned, struck with worn obverse die. Very rare.

Although this example clarifies the form of the lower monogram, it is not helpful in determining the mint, as this monogram does not appear elsewhere.