435, Lot: 634. Estimate $100. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR “Tetradrachm” (26mm, 14.55 g, 7h). Copy by uncertain maker (marked MB in monogram on reverse). Head of hero (Alexander or Seleukos?) right, wearing helmet covered with panther skin and adorned with the ear and horns of a bull / Nike standing right, holding wreath that she places on trophy to right. For prototype: cf. SC 173.10. VF, toned.
From the Jonathan K. Kern Collection.