445, Lot: 208. Estimate $300. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. As satrap, 321-315 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.28 g, 3h). In the name of Philip III of Macedon, types of Alexander III. Babylon (II) mint. Struck circa 318/7-315 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; thunderbolt-over-monogram in left field, Z below throne. SC CAd43.9; Duyrat Group V, Series 3, 880–95 (Arados); Price P141; HGC 9, 11 var. (unlisted issue). VF, lightly toned, tiny flan flaw on reverse.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, 7 December 1997.