Ex Houghton Collection – Die Study Plate Coin

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 223. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-225 BC. AV Stater (8.49 g, 12h). Antioch mint. Struck circa 244-225 BC. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣEΛEYKOY, Apollo standing left, testing arrow held in right hand, left hand placed on bow set on ground; monograms to outer left and right. SC 687.1 (this coin referenced); Le Rider, Antioche 1 (A1/P1 - this coin illustrated) = Houghton 43 (this coin); WSM 995 var. (same obv. die, different control marks). Near EF, light marks, obverse a little off center. Rare.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 31 (9 September 1994), lot 402; Arthur A. Houghton Collection, 43; Numismatic Fine Arts 16 (2 December 1985), lot 239.