Triton XVI, Lot: 549. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 17.06 g, 7h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Diademed head of Antiochos I right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY, Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos, testing arrow in his right hand, and holding bow in his left hand; monograms to outer left and right. SC 587.1a; ESM 178; CSE 955 (same dies); SNG Spaer 382–3; HGC 9, 236g. Near EF, lightly toned, minor scuff in legend. Well centered on a broad flan.