Triton XIV, Lot: 357. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.25 g, 6h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Ekbatana mint. Struck circa 311-300/295 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, horned horse head right and monogram above forepart of horse grazing left; below throne, sun (or laurel wreath?) within linear square. Unpublished. Good VF, lightly toned, obverse a little off center. A new type for Ekbatana under Seleukos I.