318, Lot: 267. Estimate $300. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.06 g, 6h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Babylon I mint. Struck circa 311-300 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram within wreath in left field, MI below throne. SC 82.5b; Price 3747; SNG Alpha Bank –; SNG München –; SNG Saroglos 646; HGC 9, 10f. Good VF, toned, minor die wear on obverse.

From the RAJ Collection, purchased from Davisson’s at the Chicago International Coin Fair in 1993.