CNG 108, Lot: 265. Estimate $500. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 17.04 g, 8h). Karrhai mint. Struck circa 310-290 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; no control marks. SC 43; HGC 9, 12a. Good VF, toned, die rust on obverse. Rare.

From the MNL Collection. Ex Barry Murphy Inventory 19950 (August 2011); Triton IX (10 January 2006), lot 998; Seleucus I Hoard (CH X, 265).