CNG 108, Lot: 291. Estimate $1000. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos I Soter. 281-261 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 16.88 g, 12h). In the name of Seleukos I, 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; oval below throne. SC 308d; HGC 9, 125a. Good VF, toned, slight porosity. Rare.

From the MNL Collection. Ex Apollo Numismatics Inventory 0010937 (November 2010).