Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 523. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-280 BC. AV Stater (8.58 gm, 6h). Seleukeia on the Tigris I mint. Struck circa 300-280 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with a serpent / BASILE-W[S] SELEUKOU, Nike standing left, holding wreath in right hand, stylis in left; monogram below left wing. SC 115.2 var. (monogram below right wing); ESM 1 var. (same); SNG Spaer -. EF. Apparently an unrecorded variety. ($5000)