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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 

Third Known

Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 359. Estimate $1000. 
Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009. 
Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Obol (0.63 g, 11h). Susa mint. Struck circa 300-295 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, erecting trophy; H to lower left, ZX in field between Nike and trophy. SC Ad87; Gorny & Mosch 147, lot 1517 = Gorny & Mosch 138, lot 140; Gorny & Mosch 152, lot 1457. EF, light cleaning marks. Extremely rare, the third known of this issue.