418, Lot: 329. Estimate $150. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 17.06 g, 8h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Uncertain mint 6A in Babylonia. Struck circa 308-304 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; anchor and monogram in left field, monogram below throne. SC C67.3a; Taylor Series II, 85 (A24/P1); Price 3436; HGC 9, 10d. Near VF, lightly toned. Rare.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, December 1997.