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LOT 2976

Seleukid Empire, Seleukos II Kallinikos AR Tetradrachm. Struck before 240-235 BC. Uncertain mint 36, perhaps in Cilicia.

Diademed head to right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΕΛ-ΕΥΚΟΥ, Apollo standing facing, head to left, holding arrow in his right hand and resting left elbow on tall tripod; to inner left, monogram of MH; to outer right, monogram of ΔΙ. SC 676.2; Newell, ESM 1641; HGC 9, 303m. Very Fine. Areas of delamination on reverse.(15.96gr, 27mm, 12h.).

Provenance

From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990.
Property of an Essex lady until the the late 1990s; thence by descent.
From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.

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LOT 2976

Seleukid Empire, Seleukos II Kallinikos AR Tetradrachm.

Sold for (Inc. bp): £195

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