Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 995. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.12 g, 9h). Seleukeia in Pieria mint. Struck circa 300-281 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / BASILEWS SELEUKOU, Zeus Nikephoros seated left; monogram in left field, BH below throne. SC 29.1c; Le Rider, Antioche 30 (A2/P14); WSM -; SNG Spaer -; Houghton -; Meydancikkale 2743 (same obv. die). Good VF. ($500)