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357, Lot: 148. Estimate $200.
Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Obol (9mm, 0.41 g, 12h). Uncertain mint in Drangiana. Struck during coregency with Antiochos I, circa 294-281 BC, or later. Crude head of hero (Alexander or Seleukos?) right, wearing helmet covered with panther skin and adorned with the ear and horns of a bull / Nike standing right, holding in both hands a wreath(?) that she places on trophy to right. SC 228.1; HGC 9, 60; Houghton, “Notes on the Early Seleucid Victory Coinage of ‘Persepolis,’” SNR 59 (1980), p. 12, 20-25. VF, toned, edge chip, spot of corrosion on the reverse, worn dies. Crude and barbarous style. Rare.