CNG 108, Lot: 306. Estimate $750. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 17.07 g, 10h). Uncertain mint 30, in northern Mesopotamia(?). Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and placing hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; Aramaic letter(?) to outer left, M to outer right. SC 580.2a; Le Rider,
Antioche, Annexe 4, Group 1, – (dies A2/P– [obv. die unlisted for this issue, unlisted rev. die]); HGC 9, 238r. EF, lightly toned, underlying luster. Rare.
From the MNL Collection. Ex Vilmar Numismatics Inventory 5048 (11 January 2013).