Triton XVIII, Lot: 708. Estimate $750. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 17.12 g, 10h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Babylon I mint. Struck circa 311-300 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in wreath in left field, MI below throne. SC 82.5b; Price 3747; HGC 9, 10f; CSE II 41 (same obv. die); SNG Saroglos 646. EF, attractive old iridescent tone, a little off center.

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Triton I (2 December 1997), lot 430.