Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 998. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $400. 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 / BASILEW[S] SELEUKOU, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left on backless throne. SC 43; WSM 777; cf. SNG Spaer 80 (same obv. die, re-engraved); Houghton -. Good VF, struck with rusty obverse die. ($500)