402, Lot: 289. Estimate $75. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-225 BC. Æ (14.5mm, 3.23 g, 10h). Arados mint. Struck circa 226/5-225/4 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Prow left; anchor above. SC C72; Duyrat 1095–1111; HGC 9, –; HGC 10, –. VF, dark brown patina. Rare.

For a discussion on the attribution and dating of this issue, see O. Hoover, “A Second Look at the Aradian Bronze Coinage Attributed to Seleucus I (SC 72–73)” in AJN 18 (2006).