Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 526. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-280 BC. AR Fourrée Tetradrachm (12.79 gm, 6h). Imitating Susa mint. Struck after circa 305/4 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; M below left wing, AX in field between Nike and trophy. Cf. SC 173.14; cf. Kritt, Early Tr.104 (A62); cf. ESM 420; SNG Spaer -; cf. Houghton 1025. Near EF, light porosity ($1500)

From the Ronald Cohen Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 112 (17 October 2001), lot 4163.