CNG 85, Lot: 482. Estimate $500. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.95 g, 10h). Uncertain mint 5A, in Cappadocia, Eastern Syria or Northern Mesopotamia. Struck circa 312-290 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in left field, monogram below throne. SC 61 (this coin illustrated); HGC 9, 12a. Good VF, some porosity, minor metal flaw on reverse.

Ex Arthur A. Houghton Collection (not in published collections).