Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1004. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.16 g, 2h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint, first workshop. Struck circa 300-281 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / BASILEWS SELEUKOU, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in wreath in left field; K below throne. SC 117.2b; ESM 12; SNG Spaer 115; Houghton 945. Good VF, lightly toned. ($500)