392, Lot: 326. Estimate $200. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos I Soter. 281-261 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 16.97 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Pergamon mint. Struck under Philetairos, circa 280 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophorus seated left; in left field, helmeted head of Athena right; crescent below throne. SC 307.2 var. (star below throne; same obv. die as illustration); cf. Price 1470; Black Sea Hoard 334 (this coin). VF, lightly toned.

From the collection of Will Gordon. Ex “Black Sea” Hoard, 334.