Triton XVI, Lot: 547. Estimate $750. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos I Soter. 281-261 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.05 g, 6h). Aï Khanoum mint. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY, Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos, testing arrow in his right hand, and holding bow in his left hand; to inner left, Δ within circle. SC 438.1a; ESM 696 var. (Apollo holds two arrows); CSE 1289; SNG Spaer –; HGC 9, 128i. Good VF, toned. Well struck on good metal.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 53 (15 March 2000), lot 605.

The previous CNG sale attributed the coin as having a second monogram, in the outer right field, due to an obverse die link with the ESM 697 plate coin (SC 438.3a). However, obverse die links are common across the different varieties of many issues of Seleukos I (including SC 438), and there is enough visible on the right side of the reverse to conclude that there is no monogram there on this piece.