Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1014. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos I Soter. Joint reign with Seleukos I, 294-281 BC. AR Drachm (4.20 g, 11h). Uncertain mint in Drangiana. Head of hero (Alexander or Seleukos?) right, wearing helmet covered with panther skin and adorned with the ear and horns of a bull / [BASILEWS] ANTIOCO[U], Nike standing right erecting trophy; A in low field between Nike and trophy. SC 226; A. Houghton, "Notes on the early Seleucid victory coinage of 'Persepolis'," SNR 59 (1980), 5; ESM -; SNG Spaer -; Houghton -. Good VF, even gray tone, minor roughness. Very rare. ($500)