Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 581. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $507. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-225 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.96 g, 12h). Antioch mint. Struck circa 244-222 BC. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios standing left, leaning on tripod and testing arrow; monogram to inner left and outer right. SC 689.1a; Le Rider, Antioche 25 (A4/P13 – this coin). Good VF, minor porosity.

Ex Elsen 91 (24 March 2007), lot 115; Schweizerische Kreditanstalt 3 (19 April 1985), lot 248.