397, Lot: 201. Estimate $200. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 12.43 g, 11h). In the name and 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 116 var. (monogram below throne); Price 3784 var. (same); HGC 9, 9d. VF, toned, compact flan, deposits.

From the collection of Dr. Will Gordon.