Triton XIX, Lot: 283. Estimate $5000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.97 g, 11h). Kyme mint. Diademed head of Antiochos I right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY, Herakles, right hand extended to hold base of club set on ground to left, left hand placed on rock, seated left on lion skin draped over rock; monogram between legs; in exergue, one-handled cup to left of two monograms. SC 505.5a; WSM 1524α–β (same dies); HGC 9, 241c; Pozzi 2944 (same dies). Good VF, toned. Rare.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group Inventory 750624 (November 2004); Sternberg X (25 November 1980), lot 167 (hammer 10,500 CHF).