452, Lot: 398. Estimate $250. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 16.98 g, 11h). 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; monogram in wreath in left field, MI below throne. SC 82.5a; Price 3746; HGC 9, 10f. Toned, graffito in field on reverse. VF.

From the John L. Cowan Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Review XXIII.1 (Winter 1998), no. SP1005/955529 (this coin illustrated).