78, Lot: 38. Estimate $200. Sold for $295. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I. 312-280 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.89 gm). Laodicea ad Mare mint. Struck circa 261-246 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre; dolphin left above monogram in left field, monogram beneath throne. A. Houghton, "The Early Seleucid Mint at Laodicea ad Mare", in Travaux Le Rider, Series III, Group 26 (A-/P1); SC 36 var. (different monograms). VF.

This coin is of group 26, but the obverse die is that of group 25.