Ex Rubin and Houghton Collections

CNG 109, Lot: 237. Estimate $3000. Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-225 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 17.21 g, 1h). Smyrna mint(?). Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow, standing left, leaning on tripod to right; two monograms to inner left. SC 647.2 (this coin referenced); CSE 539 = Seyrig, Trésors, 1.28 (this coin); HGC 9, 303d. EF, wonderful iridescent tone.

From the MNL Collection. Ex Herbert & Aphrodite Rubin Collection (Goldberg 96, 14 February 2017), lot 1771; Arthur Houghton Collection (Numismatic Fine Arts XVIII, 31 March 1987), lot 302; G. Hirsch XXXV (25 June 1963), lot 470; Asia Minor or North Syria, 1970 Hoard (CH I, 74).