285, Lot: 119. Estimate $200. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Hemidrachm (13mm, 1.89 g, 1h). Seleukeia on the Tigria mint, 2nd workshop. Struck circa 296/5 BC or later. Laureate head of Zeus right / Athena in chariot drawn by two horned elephants; above, anchor and monogram in circle. SC 133.2; HGC 9, 47a. VF, toned, some porosity. Rare.

Ex Grove Collection (Superior, 11 June 1986), lot 1233 (part of).