Triton XVI, Lot: 536. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. As satrap, 321-315 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.52 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 single pendant earring, necklace, and triple-crested Corinthian helmet adorned with a serpent / BAΣ-IΛEΩ-Σ AΛEΞAN[ΔPOY], 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 var. (monogram); Price 3748 var. (same); HGC 9, 3a; SNG Saroglos 166–8 var. (same); Gorny & Mosch 203, lot 143; Roma II, lot 355. EF, small edge nick on obverse, reverse a little off center.