Triton XVI, Lot: 542. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. As satrap, 321-315 BC. AR Stater – Double Shekel (23mm, 16.31 g, 1h). Babylon II mint. Baal seated left, holding scepter in right hand, left hand on throne / Lion advancing left; Γ above. Nicolet-Pierre 7; Iossif & Lorber 28–41; Pozzi 2871. Good VF, lightly toned, a hint of porosity.

See P. Iossif and C. Lorber, “Marduk and the Lion: A Hoard of Babylonian Lion Staters” in Liber Amicorum, p. 347, for the dating of certain issues of these types to the first satrapy of Seleukos in Babylon.