355, Lot: 172. Estimate $500. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 3.76 g, 5h). 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 / Nike standing right, placing wreath on trophy; [Å]r to lower left, facing bust of Helios in lower middle field, Z to lower right. SC 174.9 (this coin cited); ESMS S-51; HGC 9, 34. Near EF, lightly toned, slight roughness, long surface crack on reverse.

From the Nicholas Sicurella Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Auctions IX (7 December 1989), lot 109.