381, Lot: 223. Estimate $150. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (36.5mm, 17.13 g, 4h). In the types of Alexander III of Macedon. Seleukeia on the Tigris I mint. Struck circa 300-281 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in left field and below throne. SC 117.1c; HGC 9, 12i. VF, toned, a couple small deposits, overstruck on uncertain type (traces visible on both sides).

From collection of Will Gordon.