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CNG 96, Lot: 537. Estimate $500.
Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.95 g, 1h). Alexandreia Troas mint. Head right, wearing winged diadem / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos; monogram to outer right; in exergue, horse grazing left and monogram. SC 492 corr. (monogram in exergue); WSM 1566β corr. (same; same dies); HGC 9, 240. VF, bright surfaces, lightly toning around the devices, minor die shift on obverse.


This is possibly an issue of Antiochos Hierax, see SC 492 note.