Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 768. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $210. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 1st Satrapy, 320-315 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.13 g, 11h). Babylon (II) mint. Struck in the name of Philip III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; D monogram in left field, z below throne. SC Ad43.4; Price P144. VF, lightly toned, pit on forehead from an inclusion in the metal.

From the Arthur Houghton Collection.