Ex Bement and Consul Weber Collections

CNG 109, Lot: 239. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-225 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.39 g, 12h). Smyrna mint(?). Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow, standing left, leaning on tripod to right; two monograms to inner left. SC 650 (this coin referenced, same dies as illustration); WSM 1647 = Bement 1673 = Consul Weber 4041 (this coin, illustrated); HGC 9, 303e. EF, toned, minor porosity. High relief. Extremely rare, one of two known.

From the MNL Collection, purchased from Jonathan K. Kern, December 2015. Ex Clarence S. Bement Collection (Naville VII, 23 June 1924), lot 1673; J. Hirsch XXXIV (5 May 1914), lot 502; Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber Collection (Part I, J. Hirsch XXI, 16 November 1908), lot 4041.