Triton XVIII, Lot: 128. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 4.12 g, 9h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint II. Struck circa 296/5-281 BC. Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣEΛEYKOY, Athena, brandishing spear overhead in right hand, shield on left arm, in quadriga of elephants right; anchor above, Θ between shield and elephants. SC 131.7; ESM 90; HGC 9, 32a; Sunrise 173 corr. (this coin). VF, light porosity, slight die shift on obverse.

From the Sunrise Collection, purchased from Harlan J. Berk.