CNG 108, Lot: 310. Estimate $500. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-225 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.72 g, 11h). Uncertain mint 40, in Commagene or western Mesopotamia. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow, standing left, leaning on tripod to right; [monogram to outer right]. SC C727.2; WSM 1646 (same dies as illustration); HGC 9, 303p. Good VF, die break on obverse. Very rare.

From the MNL Collection, purchased from Klassische-Münzen, 23 December 2010. Reportedly ex 2002 Uncertain Findspot (“Seleucus III”) hoard (CH X, 272).

Struck from the same obverse die as the following lot. This obverse die was used for many of the varieties of SC C727.