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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 666. Estimate $400. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004. 
Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I. 312-280 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.96 gm). Ekbatana mint. Struck in the name of Alexander III of Macedon, circa 311-295 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre; monogram in left field, horse grazing left at Zeus' feet. SC 202.3; ESM 446; Price 3902. Near EF, light marks on the reverse. ($400)

From the Tuck Pittman Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 58 (19 September 2001), lot 286; Classical Numismatic Auctions I (1 May 1987), lot 35; The Garrett Collection, Part III (Numismatic Fine Arts/Leu, 29 March 1985), lot 91.