Triton XVIII, Lot: 131. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Drachm (16mm, 4.18 g, 10h). 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; [H to lower left], AX in lower middle field. SC 174.5; ESMS S-31; ESM 418; HGC 9, 34; Sunrise 176 corr. (control marks; this coin). Near EF, toned, slight granularity, light scratch on obverse, reverse off center. Rare.

From the Sunrise Collection.

Struck from the same dies as New York Sale XXXII, lot 178, which verifies the control mark that is off the flan on this piece.