Triton XVIII, Lot: 143. Estimate $30000. Sold for $30000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-225 BC. AV Stater (17mm, 8.46 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. SC 717; Le Rider, Antioche 20 (A5/P12) = CSE 41 = Sunrise 187 (this coin); HGC 9, 299e. Good VF, minor lamination on obverse, die break on reverse. Very rare.

From the Sunrise Collection. Ex Goldberg 37 (12 September 2006), lot 3416; Leu 36 (7 May 1985), lot 177; Arthur Houghton Collection, 41.