Rare Bearded Portrait of Seleukos II

CNG 108, Lot: 312. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-225 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 16.54 g, 1h). Nisibis mint. Diademed head right, with short beard / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow, standing left, leaning on tripod to right; monograms to outer [left] and right. SC 749.3b; HGC 9, 304b; G. Hirsch 296, lot 1917 (same rev. die). Good VF, lightly toned, areas of slight roughness, off center on reverse, overstruck on uncertain type (traces of undertype in field on obverse). Rare bearded portrait issue.

From the MNL Collection, purchased from Hadrien Rambach, 16 August 2016, who acquired it from Malcolm Hay.