Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 941. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos Hierax. Circa 242-227 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.04 g, 1h). Lysimacheia mint. Diademed head of Antiochos I right / Apollo Delphios seated left; two monograms to outer left. SC 857. EF, areas of dark find patina. Rare.

Ex Elsen 49 (19 April 1997), lot 321.

The placement of this issue under Antiochos Hierax is not certain, and it may belong to the reign of Antiochos II or during the period between the death of Antiochos II and accession of Hierax.