CNG 108, Lot: 289. Estimate $500. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos I Soter. 281-261 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 17.28 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Pergamon mint. Struck under Philetairos, circa 280 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophorus seated left; in left field, helmeted head of Athena right; crescent below throne. SC 307.2 var. (star below throne; same obv. die as illustration); cf. Price 1470; HGC 9, 123; Black Sea Hoard 334 (same dies). Good VF, toned. Extremely rare, only the Black Sea Hoard piece published (= CNG E-392, lot 326).

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Noble 87 (8 April 2008), lot 4211; Gorny & Mosch 129 (8 March 2004), lot 143.