Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 997. Estimate $1000.  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 (16.91 g, 7h). Carrhae mint. Struck circa 310-290 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / BASILEWS SELEUKOU, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, head of dog left, wearing collar; HP monogram below throne. SC 42.6b; WSM 779; SNG Spaer 82 (same obv. die); Houghton -. Good VF. Rare. ($1000)