Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 219. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AV Stater (8.57 g, 5h). Babylon I mint. Struck in the name of Alexander III of Macedon, circa 311-300 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with sphinx, single-pendant earring, and necklace / BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY, Nike standing right, holding wreath in extended right hand and cradling stylis in left arm; below left wing, monogram in wreath. SC 81.4; Price 3750; SNG Copenhagen 637. EF, traces of original luster remaining. Well centered strike from fine style, high relief dies on a broad flan.