CNG 88, Lot: 452. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 4.18 g, 7h). Susa mint. Struck circa 305/4-295 BC. Male head (Alexander or Seleukos?) right, wearing helmet covered with leopard skin and adorned with the ear and horns of a bull / Nike standing right, placing wreath on trophy; H to lower left, AX in lower middle field. SC 174.5; ESMS S-31; HGC 9, 34. VF, toned, obverse a little off center. Rare denomination.