Extremely Rare Bargylia Mint Issue

CNG 105, Lot: 412. Estimate $500. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29.5mm, 16.85 g, 12h). Bargylia mint. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and placing hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; to outer left, statue of Artemis Kindyas facing; erasure mark in exergue. SC 549 var. (monogram in exergue); WSM 1468 (same obv. die as both illustrations); HGC 9, 238l; Gemini XII, lot 182 = CNG 61, lot 809 (same dies). Good VF, toned, minor porosity. An unpublished variety with monogram erased, from an extremely rare mint.

More traces of the monogram are visible in the photo of the Gemini XII / CNG 61 piece.