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783945. Sold For $6750

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-226 BC. AV Stater (20mm, 8.51 g, 11h). Uncertain mint 40 (Commagene?). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet / BASILEWS SEL-EUKOU, Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand; long palm frond behind, NA to inner left. SC 726; Houghton 1311 = Houghton, "The Tarik Darreh (Kangavar) Hoard," ANSMN 25 (1980), 32 (this coin); SNG Spaer -. Good VF, light scrape at edge on obverse, reverse lightly double-struck. Extremely rare, one of two examples known.



From the Semon Lipcer Collection. Ex Arthur Houghton Collection; Leu 25 (23 April 1980), lot 178; Tarik Darreh Hoard (CH II, 70 = CH VII, 78).