Hello everyone!
I recently purchased a very odd Seleukos II
tetradrachm from the Naumann
auction on January 1st.
The coin was attributed incorrectly by Naumann to Seleukos II tetradrachms from an Unkown
Mint, and it doesn't actually appear to be on SCO or in
HGC 9. The same coin was sold at a
CNG auction in 2010. The
CNG description did state that the coin is unlisted on SCO, but
had it linked to
HGC 9 303 (which is the generic Seleukos II /
Apollo leaning on tripod
tetradrachm type). According to
CNG, at the time it was sold with a David
Sear ticket, but that seems to have been lost at some point over the last 12 years.
As far as I can tell, the
mint marks are a trident crossed by a
dolphin to
Apollo's left, but those
mint marks don't appear on any other
Seleucid coins AFAIK. The
dolphin alone does show up on coins from Laodikeia ad Mare (I have a couple silver coins from Seleukos I / Antiochos I with the
dolphin mint mark), but I haven't seen a trident as a
mint mark rather than a simple
reverse design. Additionally,
HGC 9 does list a Seleukos /
Apollo leaning on tripod
type tetradrachm from Laodikeia ad Mare, which is
HGC 9 303s, but it doesn't have a plate or description, AND its reference to SC is an addendum coin which I can't seem to locate (SC Ad152).
Any
help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks