95, Lot: 61. Estimate $150. Sold for $158. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. Posthumous issue struck by Antiochos I. 280-261 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 4.11 gm). Laodicea mint. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre; dolphin and monogram before, monogram below throne. SC 358(4).c; WSM 1208c; Houghton, "The Early Seleucid Mint of Laodicea ad Mare (c. 300-246 BC)," in Travaux Le Rider, Group XIII. Lightly toned, near EF, minor roughness, small spot of horn silver on the reverse. Rare issue.

Ex Freeman and Sear Mail Bid Sale 8 (5 February 2003), lot 201.