405, Lot: 219. Estimate $500. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Drachm (16mm, 3.88 g, 6h). Susa mint. Struck circa 305/4-295 BC. Head of hero (Alexander or Seleukos?) right, wearing helmet covered with panther skin and adorned with the ear and horns of a bull / Nike standing right, placing wreath on trophy to right; M to lower left, Boeotian shield in lower middle field. SC 174.7; ESMS S-36; Marest-Caffey Group 2.6, dies A18/R22; HGC 9, 34. VF, lightly toned, rough surfaces on obverse, slightly off center on reverse. Very rare.