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424, Lot: 244. Estimate $150.
Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 17.18 g, 12h). 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 AP monogram in left field, ΠE monogram below throne. SC C67.2a; Price 3435A; Taylor Series II, 80–1 (A23/P1); HGC 9, 10d;Meydancikkale 2082–3 (same dies). VF, struck with worn obverse die. Extremely rare, only two noted by Taylor (both in Meydancikkale hoard), one in Pella, none in CoinArchives.


From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection.