Triton XIX, Lot: 284. Estimate $10000. Sold for $19000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-225 BC. AV Stater (18.5mm, 8.51 g, 12h). Uncertain mint, possibly Antioch on the Orontes. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣE-ΛEYKOY, Apollo, nude, standing left, testing arrow held in his right hand, leaning on bow held in his left hand and set on ground to right; ΩZ monogram to outer right. SC 701; Le Rider, Antioche, p. 72, 1 (A1/P1); HGC 9, 299c. Good VF, scattered marks. Extremely rare, especially with control to outer right, only one example noted by Le Rider (Auctiones AG 8, lot 342), which is also the one example in CoinArchives (NY Sale XXV, lot 113).