Triton XV, Lot: 1280. Estimate $7500. Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.12 g, 11h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint, workshop II. Struck circa 296/5-281 BC. Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣEΛEYKOY, Athena, brandishing spear overhead in right hand, shield on left arm, in quadriga of elephants right; anchor above, HP monogram to right. SC 130 var. (control mark); ESM –; CSE –; SNG Spaer –; HGC 9, 18a. EF, toned. Well struck.