Two Staters from the Houghton Collection

Triton XVIII, Lot: 142. Estimate $30000. Sold for $25000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-225 BC. AV Stater (17mm, 8.48 g, 12h). Uncertain mint associated with Antioch. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣE-ΛEYKO[Y], 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 703.3b; Le Rider, Antioche 4 (A4/P4) = CSE 424 = Sunrise 186 (this coin); HGC 9, 299d. Near EF, a little die wear, tiny deposit on obverse. Very rare.

From the Sunrise Collection. Ex Arthur Houghton Collection, 424.