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CNG 109, Lot: 209. Estimate $500.
Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 16.40 g, 12h). Local imitation. Uncertain mint in eastern Arachosia. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; two concentric circles below throne, no legend. SC Ad14 (this coin referenced and illustrated); Miller, East 61 (this coin); cf. HGC 9, 10 (for prototype). VF, traces of find patina.


From the MNL Collection, purchased from Russ Milleson, May 2011, who acquired it from Frank Kovacs, 2002. Ex East Arachosia (Quetta) Hoard, 2002 (CH X, 275).