Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 921. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.15 g, 2h). Susa mint. Struck circa 305/4-295 BC. Head of hero (Alexander or Seleukos?) right, wearing helmet covered with panther skin and adorned with the ear and horns of a bull / Nike standing right, erecting trophy; AP below left wing, facing bust of Helios in field between Nike and trophy, monogram to lower right. SC 173.16; ESMS 108 var. (A65/P- [unlisted rev. die]). VF, obverse struck a little softly. Rare.