289, Lot: 141. Estimate $1500. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AV Stater (17mm, 8.49 g, 3h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Babylon I mint. Struck circa 311-300 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with sphinx, single-pendant earring, and necklace / Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand and cradling stylis in left arm; MI in left field, monogram in wreath below left wing. SC 81.3; Price 3749; SNG Saroglos 169. VF.