Published in CSE

CNG 109, Lot: 232. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 16.90 g, 1h). Tarsos mint. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and placing hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; two monograms in exergue. SC 561; CSE 454 (this coin); HGC 9, 238n. Good VF, toned, slight die wear on obverse, a little off center on reverse.

From the MNL Collection. Ex Manhattan Sale I (5 January 2010), lot 92; W.B. and R.E. Montgomery Collection; Arthur Houghton Collection, purchased from Münzen und Medaillen AG, June 1980.