CNG 108, Lot: 280. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.08 g, 10h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint II. Struck circa 296/5-281 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / Athena, brandishing spear, shield on left arm, in quadriga of elephants right; anchor above, N and [K] flanking monogram in exergue. SC 130.19 corr. (monogram); HGC 9, 18a; NFA VIII, lot 328 (same dies); CNG E-110, lot 60 (same dies). Good VF, toned, slightly off center. Bold portrait of Zeus. Extremely rare, apparently the third known of this issue.

From the MNL Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 954947 (June 2013).