Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 871. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $325. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.11 g, 12h). Babylon I mint. Struck in the name of Alexander III of Macedon, circa 311-300 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, MI above lagobolon (or pedum); monogram in wreath below throne. SC 82.2 var. (symbol); Price 3753-3756 var. (same). Near EF, lightly toned.

This symbol is not recorded for any issue at Babylon.