Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 578. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $1150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos I Soter. 281-261 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.99 g, 12h). Pergamon mint. Struck under Philetairos in the name of Seleukos I, circa 279-274 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, helmeted head of Athena right; crescent below throne. SC 308b. Good VF. Well centered on a broad flan.