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417, Lot: 279. Estimate $200.
Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.19 g, 10h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint, workshop II(?). Struck circa 296/5-281 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / Athena, brandishing spear and shield, in elephant quadriga right; anchor above; Z and Φ before elephants. Unpublished control letters (Z and Φ), but cf. SC 130.1-2; cf. HGC 9, 18a. Near VF, lightly toned, light marks, scrape on Zeus’ brow.