Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 221. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos I Soter. 281-261 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.07 g, 1h). Pergamon mint. Struck under Philetairos in the name of Seleukos I, circa 279-274 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣEΛEYKOY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet; crescent below throne. SC 308b; WSM 1532θ = Hirsch 1634 (same rev. die); Houghton -; SNG Spaer 242 (same obv. die). EF, underlying luster. Well centered.