Triton XVII, Lot: 367. Estimate $2000. Sold for $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.00 g, 8h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint, workshop II (or related mint?). Struck circa 296/5-281 BC. Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath / CAΣIΛEΩΣ (sic) ΣEΛEYKO[Y], Athena, brandishing spear overhead in right hand, shield on left arm, in quadriga of elephants right; no control marks visible (off flan?). Unpublished, but cf. CNG 72, lot 915 (with same blundered legend) and CNG 94, lot 721, which must be related to this issue. EF, lightly toned.