Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 847. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos I Soter. 280-261 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.95 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, star below throne. SC 308a; Newell, "The Pergamene Mint Under Philetaerus," ANSNNM 76, 5 (dies V/5); SNG Spaer 242 var. (crescent below throne); WSM 1531. Good VF, toned, minor scratches on reverse. ($750)

The mint of Pergamon was established by Lysimachos. After Lysimachos' defeat at the Battle of Corupedion in 281 BC, this mint 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 in the name of both Alexander and Seleukos.