Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 656. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.05 gm). Antigoneia on the Orontes or Seleukeia in Pieria mint. Struck in the name of Alexander III of Macedon, circa 300 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre; X in left field, F below throne. SC 28.1a; WSM 2; Price 3192. VF. Rare, the entire issue from Antigoneia was struck with only two obverse dies. ($300)