Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 992. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.17 g, 11h). Sardis mint. Struck circa 282-281 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / BASILEWS SELEUKOU, Zeus Nikephoros seated left; monogram in left field, AS below throne. SC 3.3a; WSM 1352; SNG Spaer 64 (same dies); Houghton 593 var. (same obv. die; different control below throne). Good VF. ($500)