255, Lot: 128. Estimate $150. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. As satrap, 321-315 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.63 g, 7h). In the name of Philip III of Macedon. Babylon (II) mint. Struck circa 318/7-315 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, ΛY on prow left; I below throne. Price P158; SC Ad43.15; Duyrat group V, series 11, 1032-75; cf. HGC 9, 11. Near VF, porosity, area of metal flaw on reverse.