315, Lot: 101. Estimate $500. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos I Soter. Joint reign with Seleukos I, 294-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.78 g, 12h). In the types of Alexander III of Macedon. Sardes mint. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; AΣ in left field, monogram below throne. SC 321.2b = WSM 1362 (same dies); HGC 9, 127 . VF, toned, slightly off center, scratches on reverse. Very rare.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 35 (20 September 1995), lot 339.