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452, Lot: 404. Estimate $150.
Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 16.69 g, 10h). Alexandreia in Areia (Artakoana) mint. Diademed head of Antiochos I right / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos, holding arrow and bow; monogram and AΛ(?) to outer right. SC C612.5 var. (letters below monogram); Ehling, Seleukidische 5 var. (V1/R5; control letters) = ESM 728, pl. LIV, 4 var. (control letters BA re-engraved as AΛ?); HGC 9, 236h. Toned, a few marks. Near VF. Apparently unique variety of an extremely rare issue.