Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 3080. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Drachm (4.14 g, 1h). 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 / Nike standing right, erecting trophy; monograms to lower left and between. SC 174.1 var. (monogram between); ESMS S-15 var. (same). VF, toned. Unpublished with this monogram combination.

From the John A. Seeger Collection.

See SC 173.2 = ESMS Tr.5 for the other monogram on a tetradrachm in the same series.