SELEUKID KINGS OF SYRIA. Seleukos II Kallinikos, 246-226 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 29 mm, 16.22 g, 12 h), uncertain mint in Eastern Cilicia, circa 227-226. Laureate and draped bust of Seleukos II to right, with full beard. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ / ΣΕ-ΛΕΥΚΟΥ Apollo, nude, standing left, holding arrow in his right hand and resting his left elbow on a tall tripod behind him; in outer field to left, monogram of ΑΡ; in outer field to right, Μ. SC 685,1a. WSM 1321 (this coin). Of great rarity and with an astonishing portrait. Nicely toned. Minor marks, otherwise, good very fine.
From the collections of the Johns Hopkins University and J.W. Garrett II, Bank Leu & Numismatic Fine Arts, 16 October 1984, 289, and that of Baron Alexandre de Petrowicz, Naville X, 15 June 1925, 923.
This is unquestionably one of the most extraordinary and realistic portraits ever to appear in the entire Seleukos series. This beard gives Seleukos II the appearance of a philosopher, but it may be that he grew it as a way of appealing to the Parthians, who he was attempting to conquer.
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