CNG 108, Lot: 304. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 17.06 g, 12h). Bargylia mint(?). Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and placing hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; statue of Artemis Kyndyas to outer left, [monogram in exergue]. SC 549; F. Delrieux, “La statue d’Artemis sans bras sur les alexandres et les monnaies séleucides de Carie” in SNR 77 (1998), 1 var. (D1/R– [unlisted rev. die]); HGC 9, 238l. Near EF, lightly toned. Extremely rare.

From the MNL Collection. Ex Gemini XII (11 January 2015), lot 182; Classical Numismatic Group 61 (25 September 2002), lot 809.