CNG 84, Lot: 684. Estimate $750. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. As Satrap, 321-315 BC. AR Stater (21mm, 17.21 g, 12h). Babylon mint II. Struck circa 319/8-315 BC. Baal seated left, holding scepter / Lion walking left; monogram above. Nicolet-Pierre 15; SNG Berry 1457. VF, toned, some flatness to strike.

See P. Iossif and C. Lorber, “Marduk and the Lion: A Hoard of Babylonian Lion Staters” in LATH, for the dating of certain issues of these types to the first satrapy of Seleukos in Babylon.