Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 990. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.15 g, 1h). Sardis mint. Struck circa 282-281 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / BASILEWS SELEUKOU, Zeus Nikephoros seated left; monogram on shield in left field, AS below throne. SC 3.1; WSM 1350; SNG Spaer 63 (same obv. die); Houghton 592 (same dies). Good VF. ($750)

Struck from the same obverse die as the following lot.