CNG 87, Lot: 613. Estimate $3000. Sold for $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.09 g, 3h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint, workshop II. Struck circa 296/5-281 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / Athena, brandishing spear and shield, in elephant quadriga right; anchor above; Π above anchor, Σ to right of anchor. SC 130.2b; HGC 9, 18a. Near EF. Well centered.

Ex Gemini III (9 January 2007), lot 227.