423, Lot: 195. Estimate $150. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.13 g, 6h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Ekbatana mint. Struck circa 311-295 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, monogram above forepart of horse grazing left; monogram below throne. SC 202.2b; Price 3894 corr. (monogram in left field); HGC 9, 9e. VF, lightly toned, compact flan. Very rare, four noted in ESM (including the two in Pella), none in CoinArchives.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Fred Shore, 13 January 2006.