Ex Glover and Houghton Collections

CNG 109, Lot: 242. Estimate $500. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-225 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.95 g, 11h). Ekbatana mint. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow, standing left, leaning on tripod to right; to inner left, monogram above head of horse left; monogram to outer right. SC 811.2; CSE 1153 (this coin); HGC 9, 303mm. VF, toned, slightly off center on reverse.

From the MNL Collection. Ex Stephen Glover Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 264), lot 105; Arthur Houghton Collection (Numismatic Fine Arts Fall Mail Bid Sale, 12 October 1988), lot 411, purchased from Robert Hecht, May 1974.