CNG 102, Lot: 590. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. As satrap, 321-315 BC. AV Stater (17.5mm, 8.48 g, 10h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Babylon I mint. Struck circa 311-300 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing triple-crested Corinthian helmet adorned with a pellet / Nike standing left, holding wreath and stylis; [MI in left field], monogram in wreath below left wing. SC 81.3 var. (helmet ornament); Price 3749 var. (same); HGC 9, 3a; Lanz 144, lot 158 (same obv. die). EF, lustrous.
From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Gorny & Mosch 228 (9 March 2015), lot 73 (hammer €3000).