Sale: CNG 61, Lot: 815. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 25 September 2002.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleukid Kings. Seleukos II. 246-226 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.10 gm). Uncertain mint, perhaps Antioch. Diademed head right / Apollo standing left, holding arrow in right hand, resting left elbow on tripod. Houghton & Lorber 702 var. (monogram left); SNG Spaer 448 var. (monogram left on reverse, same obverse die); Newell, WSM 994 var. (monogram right, same obverse die); Houghton -. Good VF, flat strike on hair, die rust on both sides. Unrecorded variant without a monogram on the reverse. ($400)