318, Lot: 269. Estimate $400. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 4.25 g, 12h). Uncertain mint in western Asia Minor. Struck circa 281 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; monogram in left field. SC Ad45 (same dies as illustration); Seleucus I Hoard 1010 (this coin); HGC 9, 29a. EF, slightly soft strike on reverse. Extremely rare, one of approximately eight known.

Ex 2005 Unknown Findspot (“Seleucus I”) Hoard (CH 10.265).

Extremely rare drachm, with only about eight known, all from the same dies, and all from the 2005 Commerce ("Selucus I") Hoard (CH X, 265). These coins were determined to be the most 'fresh' in the context of the hoard, and as they were coins of Seleukos, were judged to be the latest coins of the hoard. They were likely struck at a mint in western Asia Minor, just prior to the battle of Korupedion between Seleukos and Lysimachos