Triton XXII, Lot: 306. Estimate $3000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos III Soter (Keraunos). 225/4-222 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31.5mm, 16.75 g, 6h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Laodikeia mint(?). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / [AΛ]EΞANΔPOY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, dolphin left above TA monogram. SC 926a; Price 3236; HGC 9, 411; SNG Saroglos 561. Near EF, toned. Struck on a wonderfully broad flan. Very rare.
From the MNL Collection. Ex Triton XVIII (6 January 2015), lot 717.