Sale: Triton V, Lot: 536. Estimate $300. Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002. Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SYRIA, Seleukid Kings. Seleukos I . 312-280 BC. Æ 19mm (7.38 gm). Antioch mint. Male figure seated left on a rock, holding an ankh in his right hand / BASIL-E[WS] above, SELEUKOU below, head of a horned elephant right; X below. SNG Spaer -; Newell, WSM, 929; Houghton, CSE, 12 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen 39; Laffaille -. Good VF, black patina, earthen encrustation around the devices. Very rare. ($300)
Ex Arthur Houghton Collection.