CNG 96, Lot: 535. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1300. 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 (26mm, 17.03 g, 1h). Uncertain mint in Cappadocia, eastern Syria, or northern Mesopotamia. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; HΔ monogram in wreath in left field, KP monogram below throne. SC 63; WSM 931 (A8/P12); HGC 9, 13a corr. (mint); Jameson 1667 (same dies). VF, toned. Very rare.

Ex Giessener Münzhandlung 58 (9 April 1992), lot 458.