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CNG 94, Lot: 722. Estimate $5000.
Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 16.90 g, 8h). Susa mint. Struck circa 305/4-295 BC. Head of hero (Alexander or Seleukos?) right, wearing helmet covered with panther skin and adorned with the ear and horns of a bull / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣEΛEYKOY, Nike standing right, placing wreath on trophy; monogram to lower left, monogram in lower middle field. SC 173.4; ESMS Tr.7 (A4/P1); ESM 426 (unlisted dies); CSE 1023 (same dies); SNG Spaer –; HGC 9, 20. Good VF, darkly toned, light graffiti (Aramaic SHN[?]) in field on obverse. Well struck.