CNG 106, Lot: 458. Estimate $500. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 17.11 g, 6h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Babylon I mint. Struck circa 300-294/3 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, Corinthian helmet left above monogram; monogram below throne. SC 87.3a; Price 3781 (Seleukeia on the Tigris mint); HGC 9, 10f. EF, lustrous.
From the B. H. Webb Collection. Ex Tuck Pittman Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 66, 19 May 2004), lot 660.