CNG 99, Lot: 327. Estimate $750. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.92 g, 12h). Phokaia mint. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY, Herakles, holding club set on ground, seated left on lion skin draped over rock; to outer left, head of griffin left above monogram (partially obscured). SC 509 var. (monogram, but same obv. die as illustration); HGC 9, 241d. VF, dark toning, some porosity and minor die break on reverse. Unpublished variety.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 94 (18 September 2013), lot 729 (realized $1200).

Although the monogram is partially obscured, enough is visible to verify that it is not the same as either listed in SC for this issue.