From the Balkan Area Hoard

CNG 108, Lot: 294. Estimate $2000. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos I Soter. 281-261 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 17.04 g, 12h). Sardes mint. Struck circa 276-274/1 BC. Diademed and horned head of Seleukos I right / Apollo Delphios, testing bow, seated left on omphalos; monogram to inner left (cut over previous monogram in die), monogram in exergue. SC 323.2a var. (monogram in exergue); HGC 9, 130; Wartenberg & Kagan, “Some comments on a new hoard from the Balkan area” in Travaux LeRider, p. 399, 88 (this coin, illustrated). VF, toned, test cut on obverse. Unpublished variety.

From the MNL Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 300 (10 April 2013), lot 74; 1990s Balkan Area Hoard (CH IX, 196).

While the exergue monogram is not completely clear, enough is visible to ensure that it is not the same as the recorded control mark.