Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 520. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-280 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.02 gm, 6h). Babylon I mint. Struck in the name of Alexander III of Macedon, circa 311-300 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / BASILEWS ALEXANDROU, Zeus seated left, holding eagle in right hand, sceptre in left; monogram in wreath in left field, H below throne. SC 82.6; Price 3704. EF, light scratches in obverse field, nick in reverse field. ($500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.