Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1005. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.14 g, 3h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint, second workshop. Struck circa 296/5-281 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / BASILEWS SELEUKOU, Athena Promachos, brandishing spear in right hand and holding shield on left arm, in quadriga drawn by elephants right; anchor above, QD in exergue. SC 130.22a var. (DQ not QD); ESM 62, pl. VIII, 11 var. (same obv. die; same); SNG Spaer -; Houghton -. Good VF. Unpublished variety. ($1000)