Triton XVIII, Lot: 126. Estimate $10000. Sold for $11000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.60 g, 6h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint I. Struck circa 300-296/5 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing single pendant earring, necklace, and triple-crested Corinthian helmet adorned with a coiled serpent / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣEΛEYKOY, Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand, cradling stylis in left arm; monogram below right wing. SC 115.2; ESM 2 (A1/P– [unlisted rev. die]); HGC 9, 4d; CSE 939 = Sunrise 170 (this coin). EF, a few minor spots of encrustation, slightly weak strike in center of obverse. Exceptionally detailed reverse. Very rare.

From the Sunrise Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 73 (13 September 2006), lot 438; Arthur Houghton Collection, 939.