Triton XX, Lot: 338. Estimate $2000. Sold for $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.57 g, 6h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Babylon I mint. Struck circa 311-300 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing single pendant earring, necklace, and triple-crested Corinthian helmet adorned with a griffin / BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY, Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand, cradling stylis in left arm; H in left field, monogram in wreath below left wing. SC 81.6-7 var. (position of controls, serpent on helmet); Price 3707 var. (same); SNG Saroglos 158; HGC 9, 3a. EF, lightly toned, a little off center on reverse.