CNG 109, Lot: 230. Estimate $750. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 17.02 g, 12h). Ephesos or Miletos mint(?). Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing bow and placing hand on omphalos, upon which he is seated left; monogram to outer left. SC 547.1; HGC 9, 239. VF, lightly toned. Very rare.

From the MNL Collection. Ex G. Hirsch 275 (22 September 2011), lot 3991 (misattributed); Giessener Münzhandlung 24 (14 March 1983), lot 99.