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Triton XVI, Lot: 544. Estimate $5000.
Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.21 g, 11h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint, workshop II. Struck circa 296/5-281 BC. Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣEΛEYKOY, Athena, brandishing spear overhead in right hand, shield on left arm, in quadriga of elephants right; anchor and Θ above, HPA monogram to left, Greek Z in exergue. SC 130.25b corr. (control marks); ESM –; CSE –; SNG Spaer –; HGC 9, 18a; Mektepini 641 corr. (same; same dies). Good VF, lightly toned. Exceptionally well centered on a very broad flan.


SC cited the Mektipini coin as the sole example of variety 130.25b, but that piece was too worn to show all the control marks.