269, Lot: 153. Estimate $150. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-225 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 4.00 g, 12h). Uncertain mint 37 in Mesopotamia. Helmeted head of Athena right / ΣEΛEYKOY BAΣIAEΩΣ (sic), Apollo standing left, testing arrow and holding grounded bow; monograms in outer fields. SC 683.2; HGC 9, 310d; CSE 1147 (same dies). Good VF, deep test punch on obverse, struck from a worn reverse die). Engraver’s error in reverse legend. Scarce.