Extremely Rare Sandan Tetradrachm

321, Lot: 197. Estimate $1500. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Alexander II Zabinas. 128-122 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 15.92 g, 12h). Tarsos mint, “Civic” workshop. Struck circa 125-122 BC. Diademed head right / Sandan standing right on back of horned lion-griffin standing right upon garlanded altar with baldachin; two monograms to outer left. SC 2211 var. (upper monogram); HGC 9, 1150. VF, toned, some minor porosity, small mark in field under tone on reverse. Extremely rare, the third known Sandan tetradrachm of Zabinas, the first with this upper monogram.