Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 672. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $5720. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos II. 246-226 BC. AV Stater (8.50 gm). Ekbatana mint. Struck circa 235 BC. Diademed head right / Apollo standing left, holding arrow and shield set on ground; monogram and horse head in inner left field; monogram in outer right field. SC 809.2; Houghton, "The Tarik Darreh (Kangavar) Hoard," ANSMN 25 (1980), 23 (this coin); SNG Spaer -; Houghton 1152 (same dies). Good VF. Very rare variety; only five speciemns known, all from the Tarik Darreh hoard. ($5000)

Ex Leu 18 (5 May 1977), lot 245.