136, Lot: 40. Estimate $200. Sold for $310. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I. 312-280 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 16.68 g). Uncertain Western mint. After 305 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion’s skin headdress / Zeus seated left, holding Nike and sceptre; monogram left, monogram right. SC 74 (this coin); SNG Spaer -; CSE -. VF, toned, reverse slightly porous. Unique.

From the Arthur Houghton Collection.