CNG 109, Lot: 256. Estimate $2000. Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos III Soter (Keraunos). 225/4-222 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 15.92 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Gabala mint. Dated CY 35 (of Arados, 225/4 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, ΓB (civic) monogram above palm tree; 35 (date in Aramaic) and ŠT (in Aramaic) in exergue. SC 928; Duyrat, Ateliers 1 (same obv. die); Price 3433; HGC 9, –; HGC 10, 161. VF, toned, some porosity. Extremely rare, two noted by Price (in Berlin [the sole piece in Pella] and Vienna), one additional noted by Duyrat (quoting Seyrig [in The Hague]), two in CoinArchives (including the present piece).

From the MNL Collection. Ex Will Gordon Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 375, 1 June 2016), lot 432.

This coin was part of a joint issue of the cities of the Aradian Peraia (Arados, Balaneia, Karne, Gabala, Marathos, and Simyra), that may have been used to help finance Seleukos’ campaign in Asia Minor to recover the Seleukid territories that were lost to Attalos I during the reign of Seleukos II.