Triton XIX, Lot: 2066. Estimate $5000. Sold for $10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AV Stater (16.5mm, 8.61 g, 9h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint I. Struck circa 300-296/5 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing single pendant earring, necklace, and triple-crested Corinthian helmet adorned with a coiled serpent / BAΣIΛEΩ-[Σ] ΣEΛEYKOY, Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand, cradling stylis in left arm; monogram below right wing. SC 115.2 var. (monogram and position); ESM 1 var. (same); HGC 9, 4d; CSE 939 = Sunrise 170 var. (same, same obv. die). Near EF, toned, light scratch on obverse. Extremely rare variety, unpublished in SC.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XVI (16 August 1991), lot 190.