367, Lot: 250. Estimate $500. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos I Soter. Joint reign with Seleukos I, 294-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 16.95 g, 6h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint I. Struck circa 296/5-281 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; in left field, retrograde HP monogram(?) above ΠO. Cf. SC 120.1a (same obv. die as illustration); HGC 9, 17. VF, struck with worn obverse die. Unpublished variety with these control marks.