321, Lot: 179. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.11 g, 7h). Susa mint. Struck circa 305/4-295 BC. Head of hero (Alexander or Seleukos?) right, wearing helmet covered with panther skin and adorned with the ear and horns of a bull / Nike standing right, placing wreath on trophy; AP to lower left, facing head of Helios in lower middle field, monogram to lower right. SC 173.16; ESMS Tr.108 (A65/P2); HGC 9, 20. Near VF, toned, a little die wear, some field marks.