Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 530. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AV Stater (8.48 gm, 6h). Aï Khanoum mint. Diademed head right / BASILEWS ANTIOCOU, Apollo seated left on omphalos, nude but for slight drapery on right thigh, holding arrow in right hand, left hand resting on bow; in inner left field, star, monogram, and lyre. SC 616.2; ESM 709; SNG Spaer -; Houghton 1292 = Houghton, "The Tarik Darreh (Kangavar) Hoard," ANSMN 25, 31 (same obverse die). Near EF. Rare. ($3000)