362, Lot: 212. Estimate $300. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos VI Epiphanes Nikator. Circa 96-94 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 15.58 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Kalykadnos mint. Diademed head right / Athena Nikephoros standing left; flower to outer left, AΛE IΔIΦ laterally to inner left; all within wreath. SC 2405.10b; Houghton, Seleucia 110–1 (obv. die A31); HGC 9, 1272. Good VF, toned.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 321 (26 February 2014), lot 212.

The control letters in the inner left field are so close together that they resemble ΑΛΕ ΔΗ, and were recorded as such by both Houghton (CSE) and Babelon.