Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1009. Estimate $1000.  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 (4.58 g, 8h). Susa mint. Struck circa 305/4-295 BC. Head of hero (Alexander or Seleukos?) right, wearing helmet covered with panther skin and adorned with the ear and horns of a bull / BASILEWS SELEUKOU, Nike standing right erecting trophy; monogram below left wing and in field between Nike and trophy. SC 174.2; ESMS p. 36, S-17; ESM 425; SNG Spaer 151; Houghton -. Good VF, obverse struck a little softly. ($1000)

From the Robert Weimer Collection. Ex Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Part IV, Sotheby's, 19-20 June 1991), lot 6147; Numismatic Fine Arts X (17-18 September 1981), lot 218.