Unpublished Variety

CNG 108, Lot: 277. Estimate $750. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.14 g, 8h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Babylon II mint. Struck circa 311-300 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; anchor and monogram in left field, pellet-within-Π below throne. SC C94.7 var. (unlisted control marks); HGC 9, 10g. Good VF, toned. Unpublished variety.

From the MNL Collection. Ex Steven Battelle Inventory U00838 (October 2011).

There are numerous obverse die links among the varieties of SC C94.7. A review of the published examples did not reveal a link to the present coin, but many of the dies were nearly identical in style to that used here.