Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 712. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $1750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.15 g, 2h). Seleukeia on the Tigris Mint I. Struck circa 300-296/5 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; M in left field, ΔI below throne. SC 119.9; ESM 28 (A30/P95); Houghton -; SNG Spaer -; SNG Copenhagen 9 (same obv. die); BMC 18 (same dies). EF, lightly toned, scuff on Zeus’ torso, patches of horn silver. Sharply struck in high relief.