Two Coins from the Tarik Darreh Hoard

Triton XIX, Lot: 2068. Estimate $10000. Sold for $9500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-225 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.52 g, 1h). Uncertain western mint. Diademed head right / [BA]ΣIΛEΩΣ [Σ]EΛ-EYKOY, 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; no control marks. SC 720; WSM –; HGC 9, 299f; CSE 1158; A. Houghton, “Tarek Darreh (Kangavar) Hoard” in ANSMN 25 (1980), p. 34, 28 (this coin). Good VF, a couple minor metal flaws. Extremely rare, only the three coins from the Tarik Darreh known for issue.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XV (5 June 1991), lot 230; Giessener Münzhandlung 50 (24 September 1990), lot 414; 1974 Tarik Darreh Hoard (CH II, 70; CH VII, 78).