445, Lot: 238. Estimate $150. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PERSIA, Alexandrine Empire. temp.
Stamenes – Seleukos. Satraps of Babylon, circa 328/3-311 BC. AR Stater (22.5mm, 16.10 g, 6h). Babylon mint. Baal seated left, holding scepter propped on knee / Lion advancing left; pentagram above. Nicolet-Pierre 5; SNG Copenhagen 265; Weber 8201. VF, toned, old cleaning scratches and light smoothing under tone.
From the Johnson Family Collection. Ex Leo Young CSNA Auction (21 April 1956), lot 1619.