Triton XIX, Lot: 2069. Estimate $7500. Sold for $18000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-225 BC. AV Stater (20mm, 8.51 g, 11h). Uncertain mint, probably in Commagene. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣE-ΛEYKOY, Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand; long palm frond transversely in backgound, NA to inner left. SC 726; HGC 9, 297 (this coin illustrated); CSE 1311 = A. Houghton, "The Tarik Darreh (Kangavar) Hoard" in ANSMN 25 (1980), 32 (this coin). Good VF, light scrape at edge on obverse, reverse lightly double-struck. Extremely rare, one of two examples known, both from the Tarik Darreh Hoard.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Semon Lipcer Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Inventory 783945, January 2007); G. Hirsch 180 (24 November 1993), lot 359; G. Hirsch 176 (19 November 1992), lot 367; Distinguished American Collection (Leu 52, 15 May 1991), lot 114; Arthur Houghton Collection; Leu 25 (23 April 1980), lot 178; 1974 Tarik Darreh Hoard (CH II, 70; CH VII, 78).