One of Two Known for Issue

CNG 109, Lot: 240. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-225 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.79 g, 12h). Uncertain Mint 40A, probably in Commogene or Mesopotamia. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow, standing left, leaning on tripod to right; Z to inner left. SC Ad166.1 (this coin referenced and illustrated); Houghton, Coin, p. 27, Group 2, 5 (this coin); HGC 9, 303z. Good VF, lightly toned, minor roughness. Extremely rare, one of two known for this issue.

From the MNL Collection. Ex Freeman & Sear inventory G4630 (February 2011); “Seleucus III” Hoard (CH X, 272).