CNG 84, Lot: 686. Estimate $750. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Stater (24mm, 15.24 g, 6h). Babylon mint, native workshop. Struck circa 311-303 BC. Ba’al seated left, holding scepter / Lion walking left; anchor and Γ above, AB monogram and crescent in exergue. SC 88.8a; G. Hirsch 187, lot 697 (same rev. die); HGC 9, 67a. EF, toned. Exceptional for type.

From the Tuck Pittman Collection. Ex New York Sale XIV (10 January 2007), lot 134.