418, Lot: 330. Estimate $150. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.07 g, 2h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Babylon I mint. Struck circa 311-300 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, MI above grape bunch; below throne, monogram within wreath. SC 82.3b; Price 3758; HGC 9, 10f. VF, trace deposits. Rare, five in Pella, four in CoinArchives.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, 18 January 2002.