CNG 109, Lot: 241. Estimate $300. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-225 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.90 g, 9h). Uncertain Mint 44, probably in Mesopotamia. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow, standing left, leaning on tripod to right; ΔI-in-circle to outer left. SC C742.5 (this coin illustrated); HGC 9, 303dd. Good VF, die rust on obverse, slight die shift on reverse. Rare.

From the MNL Collection. Ex Freeman & Sear inventory G4049 (March 2011); “Seleucus III” Hoard (CH X, 272).