Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 991. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.18 g, 12h). Sardis mint. Struck circa 282-281 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / [BA]SILEW[S] SELEUKOU, Zeus Nikephoros seated left; monogram on shield in left field, AS below throne. SC 3.2; WSM 1351; SNG Spaer 63 var. (same obv. die; slightly different monogram); Houghton 592 var. (same obv. die; same). Good VF. ($500)

Struck from the same obverse die as the previous lot.