Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 525. 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. AR Tetradrachm (16.41 gm, 11h). Susa mint. Struck circa 305/4-295 BC. Head of hero (Alexander or Seleukos?) right, wearing helmet covered with panther skin and adorned with the ear and horns of a bull / BASILEWS SELEUKOU, Nike standing right erecting trophy; monogram below left wing, AX in field between Nike and trophy. SC 173.13; Kritt, Early Tr.91 (A23/P1 - this die combination not recorded); ESM 420 var. (M below wing); SNG Spaer -; Houghton 1025 var. (same). Good VF, toned, minor porosity. ($4000)