439, Lot: 115. Estimate $200. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Obol (9.5mm, 0.65 g, 2h). Susa mint. Struck circa 300-295 BC. 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; Boeotian shield in lower middle field, monogram to lower right. SC Ad86; ESMS –; Marest-Caffey Group 4.6 corr., 274 (monogram, not AP; A8/P8); HGC 9, 49. VF, toned, die break on reverse.