Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1003. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.08 g, 3h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint, first workshop. Struck circa 300-281 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / BASILEWS SELEUKOU, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in left field; DI monogram below throne. SC 117.1c; ESM 4; SNG Spaer 109; Houghton 941. Good VF, toned. ($500)