Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 884. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Hemiobol (0.37 g, 12h). Babylon I mint(?). Struck circa 312-300 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Club, quiver, and bow; lion’s head to left. Cf. SC 85; cf. Price 3706. Good VF, toned. An apparently unpublished denomination of a very rare type.

From the Robert A. Weimer Collection.