CNG 94, Lot: 729. Estimate $500. 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, 16.92 g, 12h). Phokaia mint. Diademed head right / Herakles, holding club set on ground, seated left on lion skin draped over rock; to outer left, head of griffin left above monogram (partially obscured). SC 509 var. (monogram, but same obv. die as illustration); HGC 9, 241d. VF, dark toning, some porosity and minor die break on reverse. Unpublished variety.

Although the monogram is partially obscured, enough is visible to verify that it is not the same as either listed in SC for this issue.