Triton XVI, Lot: 535. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. As satrap, 321-315 BC. AV Stater (19mm, 8.58 g, 7h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Babylon I mint. Struck circa 311-300 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing single pendant earring, necklace, and triple-crested Corinthian helmet adorned with a serpent / BA-ΣIΛEΩ[Σ] AΛEΞANΔPO[Y], Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand, cradling stylis in left arm; MI below left wing, monogram in wreath below right wing. SC 81.2; Price 3748; HGC 9, 3a; SNG Saroglos 166–8. Superb EF, underlying luster, a little die rust on obverse, reverse a little off center.