443, Lot: 125. Estimate $200. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. As satrap, 321-315 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 17.17 g, 1h). In the name of Philip III of Macedon. Babylon (II) mint. Struck circa 318/7-315 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, monogram above grape bunch; Z below throne. SC CAd43.13; Duyrat Group V, Series 9, 986-1014 & 1016-8 (Arados); Price P155 corr. (with royal title; Arados); cf. HGC 9, 11. VF, lightly toned.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, 18 January 2002.