419, Lot: 203. Estimate $150. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.9mm, 17.26 g, 9h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Uncertain mint 6A (in Babylonia). Struck circa 308-304 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; anchor and monogram in left field, monogram in wreath below throne. SC 67.5a; Price 3441; HGC 9, 10d. VF, a few light marks.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from CNG, December 1997.