Triton XVIII, Lot: 141. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-225 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 4.18 g, 12h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣE-ΛEYKOY, Apollo standing left, testing arrow in his extended right hand, left hand on bow set on ground to right; monogram to outer left and right. SC 691.1; Le Rider, Antioche 3-4 (A1/P2); HGC 9, 310a (same obv. die as illustration); Sunrise 185 (this coin). Good VF, attractively toned, a couple minor die breaks on reverse.

From the Sunrise Collection. Ex Freeman & Sear 14 (21 June 2007), lot 270.