CNG 108, Lot: 301. Estimate $1500. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.84 g, 12h). Lampsakos mint. Diademed head of Antiochos I right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and placing hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; IΣ to outer left, monogram in exergue. SC 485a; HGC 9, 236b. EF, even gray tone. Rare.

From the MNL Collection. Ex Freeman & Sear Inventory G9678 (September 2010); Manhattan Sale I (5 January 2010), lot 90.