Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 510. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $285. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.93 gm, 6h). 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, K in right field, F below throne. SC 28.2a; Le Rider Antioche 37-38 (obv. A1); Price 3193. Good VF, slight die shift on reverse. Rare, the entire series from this mint was struck from only two obverse dies. ($300)