CNG 93, Lot: 490. Estimate $1000. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR 1/6 Unit (9mm, 0.47 g, 3h). Babylon I mint. Struck circa 311-300 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Club and quiver-over-bow; monogram in wreath to left, H to right. SC 85; Price 3706; HGC 9, 72. Good VF, toned, some roughness on reverse. Very rare.

Ex Lawrence M. Cutler Collection (Numismatic Fine Arts Fall Mail Bid Sale, 18 October 1990), lot 184; Schweizerische Kreditanstalt 8 (27 October 1987), lot 756.

As with the previous lot, the exact denomination of this coin is uncertain, although it is one-sixth the weight of the larger unit.