Ex Weimer and Hunt

Triton XVIII, Lot: 130. Estimate $3000. Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Drachm (16mm, 4.58 g, 8h). 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 / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣEΛEYKOY, Nike standing right, holding in both hands a wreath that she places on trophy to right; monogram to lower left and in lower middle field. SC 174.2; ESMS S-17; ESM 425; HGC 9, 34; Sunrise 175 (this coin). Good VF, toned, light porosity, softly struck obverse. Rare.

From the Sunrise Collection. Ex Robert Weimer Collection (Triton IX, 10 January 2006), lot 1009; Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Part IV, Sotheby's, 19 June 1991), lot 6147; Numismatic Fine Arts X (17 September 1981), lot 218.