CNG 90, Lot: 657. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos I Soter. 281-261 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 17.10 g, 12h). Magnesia on Mt. Sipylus mint. Struck circa 263-261 BC. Diademed head right / Herakles seated left on lion skin draped over rock, holding club; in exergue, unclear monogram to left, HP monogram to right. SC 318a corr. (same dies as illustration); WSM 1456 corr. (dies A2/P2); HGC 9, 129. Good VF, struck from slightly worn dies, faint scratch on cheek.

This is apparently the only example from WSM 1456 reverse die P2 where the left side monogram in the exergue is visible. Although there is a small die break intruding upon it, what is visible is enough to distinguish that the monogram is not what is represented in WSM and SC. Unfortunately, the die break does impede an exact reading of the actual monogram.