259, Lot: 147. Estimate $200. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-225 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.60 g, 9h). Uncertain mint 44, probably in Commagene or Mesopotamia. Diademed head right / Apollo standing left, testing arrow and leaning on tall tripod; monograms to inner left and outer right. SC 742 var. (out right control not described; same obv. die as illus.); HGC 9, 303dd. VF, usual die rust.