CNG 112, Lot: 318. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 16.94 g, 12h). Susa mint. Struck circa 305/4-295 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, placing wreath on trophy; monogram to lower left, monogram in lower middle field. SC 173.4; ESMS Tr.7 (A4/P1); HGC 9, 20; CSE 1023 (same dies). Lightly toned, traces of find patina, flan flaw at edge on obverse. Good VF.

From the John L. Cowan Collection, purchased from Pegasi Numismatics, 27 September 2013.