Triton XIX, Lot: 280. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.14 g, 6h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint II. Struck circa 296/5-281 BC. Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣEΛEYKOY, Athena, brandishing spear overhead in right hand, shield on left arm, in quadriga of elephants right; anchor above, AB monogram and IΣ in exergue. SC 130.24b var. (position of controls); ESM 51A var. (same); HGC 9, 18a. EF, toned, traces of find patina. Unpublished variety.