CNG 108, Lot: 261. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.15 g, 12h). Sardes mint. Struck circa 282-281 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; in left field, monogram on shield; AΣ below throne. SC 3.1; Miller & Hoover 17 (A1/P3 – this coin, illustrated); HGC 9, 16a. Good VF, attractively toned.

From the D. C. Kopen Collection. Ex Triton IX (10 January 2006), lot 990; Seleucus I Hoard (CH X, 265).