Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 220. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AV Stater (8.57 g, 7h). 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 serpent, single-pendant earring, and necklace / BA-ΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY, Nike standing right, holding wreath in extended right hand and cradling stylis in left arm; monogram in wreath under left wing, HP monogram below right wing. SC 81.8 var. (opposite position of controls); Price 3715 var. (same). EF. Well centered on a broad flan.