Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 894. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $275. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.05 g, 2h). Babylon II 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; anchor and monogram in left field, P below throne. SC 94.3 var. (monogram); Price 3353 var. (same). Good VF, slight die shift on obverse. Overstruck on uncertain type.