Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 996. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Drachm (4.28 g, 5h). 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, KP below throne. SC 31; Le Rider, Antioche 28-29 (A1/P1); WSM 891, pl. XIV, 13 (same dies); SNG Spaer -; Houghton -; Meydancikkale 2744 (same dies). EF, slight die shift on obverse. Very rare. ($500)