CNG 85, Lot: 485. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos I Soter. 281-261 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.99 g, 11h). Smyrna mint. Struck circa 269 BC. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos; to inner right, monogram above anchor. SC 310.2 (same obv. die as illustration); HGC 9, 128a. Good VF, lightly toned, several light scratches. High relief portrait.

Ex Gemini IV (8 January 2008), lot 214.