CNG 96, Lot: 524. Estimate $750. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.70 g, 6h). In the name of Alexander III of Macedon. Antigoneia or Seleukeia Pieria mint. Struck circa 300 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; monogram in left field. SC 27; Le Rider, Antioche – (A1/P3 [unlisted combination]); Price 3191; HGC 9, –. Near EF, lightly toned, a little off center. Very rare issue in the name of Alexander with Zeus Nikephoros.

Ex Athena Fund (Sotheby’s Zurich, 27 October 1993), lot 433.