Ex Pozzi Collection

Triton XIX, Lot: 2067. Estimate $15000. Sold for $25000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.43 g, 5h). Aï Khanoum mint. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY, Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos, testing arrow in his right hand, left hand on bow set on ground to right; to inner left, star above arm, monogram below, kithara before legs. SC 616.2; ESM 709β = Pozzi 2951 (this coin); HGC 9, 229e; CSE 1291–2; Bement 1675; Boston MFA 2153 = Warren 1296; Jameson 1684; Weber 7847. Good VF, toned, tiny edge bump on obverse.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Leu 54 (28 April 1992), lot 165; Hess-Leu 28 (5 May 1965), lot 270; Prof. Samuel-Jean Pozzi Collection (Naville I, 14 March 1921), lot 2951.