CNG 111, Lot: 321. Estimate $7500. Sold for $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos I Soter. 281-261 BC. AV Stater (19mm, 8.41 g, 6h). Aï Khanoum mint. Struck circa 266-261 BC. Diademed head right, with elderly features / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY, Apollo Delphios, nude, testing arrow in his right hand, left hand holding tip of bow set on ground to right, seated left on omphalos; ∆ to inner left below arrow. SC 436.6; SMAK A1SA-20 var. (A16/P– [unlisted rev. die]); ESM 704; HGC 9, 122. Near EF, slightly weak strike on obverse, small die break at edge on reverse. Very rare.