Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 509. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.07 gm, 11h). Antigoneia on the Orontes or Seleukeia in Pieria mint. Struck in the name of Alexander III of Macedon, circa 306-300 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; X in left field, F below throne. SC 28.1a; Le Rider Antioche 11-20 (obv. A1); Price 3192. Good VF. Rare, the entire series from this mint was struck from only two obverse dies. ($300)