417, Lot: 280. Estimate $200. Sold for $350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 16.49 g, 8h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Susa mint. Struck circa 311-305 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, wreath and Boiotian shield above horned horse head left; BE above strut of throne. SC 164.4b; Price 3865; HGC 9, 10g. Good VF, toned, obverse off center and surfaces smoothed, light scratches on reverse.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Spink, December 1997.