CNG 108, Lot: 267. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.14 g, 11h). Uncertain mint 5A. Struck circa 282-281 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; monograms to inner left and right. SC Ad50; HGC 9, 16e. Good VF, toned, slightly off center on reverse. Very rare.

From the MNL Collection. Ex Künker 216 (8 October 2012), lot 487 (hammer €1100); Peus 393 (31 October 2007), lot 287.