Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 670. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos I. 280-261 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.61 gm). Struck in Pergamon under Philetairos, in the name of Seleukos I, circa 279-274 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre; helmeted head of Athena in left field; two crescents under throne. SC 308c; Newell, "The Pergamene Mint Under Philetaerus," ANSNNM 76, 7 (O.X/R.20); WSM 1534. Toned VF. ($300)

From the Tuck Pittman Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen Deutschland 13 (9 October 2003), lot 585.

The mint of Pergamon was established by Lysimachos. After Lysimachos' defeat at the Battle of Korupedion in 281 BC, Pergamon issued a small but important series of tetradrachms under Seleukos I featuring a bridled horse on the obverse and an elephant on the reverse. Following Seleukos' assassination in 280 BC, Pergamon, under Philetairos, issued a large series of Alexandrine tetradrachms, some in the name of Alexander and some in the name of Seleukos.