Rare Variety
390, Lot: 191. Estimate $100. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. Æ (12.5mm, 1.95 g). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Macedonian shield / Anchor; full legends. SC 26 corr. (issue has full and abbreviated legends); HGC 9, 111 corr. (same); D. B. Waage,
Antioch on the Orontes IV: Part Two - Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Crusaders’ Coins (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1952), 12. VF, earthen dark brown patina. Rare variety with full legends, only one example, in the Antioch excavations, published.