168, Lot: 67. Estimate $200. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.19 g). Babylon II mint. Struck in the name of Alexander III of Macedon, circa 311-300 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion’s skin headdress / Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre; anchor and monogram in left field, A below throne. SC 94.4; Price 3350. VF, some light roughness.

The weight is a bit low but the coin does not appear to be a fourre