Triton XVIII, Lot: 710. Estimate $10000. Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 16.96 g, 6h). 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, monogram in lower middle field. SC 173.5b; ESMS Tr.36 (A29/P3); ESM 424; HGC 9, 20; Consul Weber 4030 (same dies); De Clercq 17 var. (monogram to lower left). Near EF, traces of tone. Struck on a broad flan. Rare issue.