Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 357. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.14 g, 4h). Seleukeia on the Tigris Mint I. Struck circa 300-296/5 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣEΛEYKOY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; NO in left field. SC 117.6a; ESM 24 (A25/P- [unlisted rev. die]); Houghton 937; SNG Spaer 120-1. Near EF, minor die shift on obverse. Well centered and struck on a broad flan.