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74, Lot: 35. Estimate $200.
Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos I, in the name of Seleukos. 280-261 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 16.96 gm). Laodikeia by the Sea mint. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre; dolphin and monogram in left field, monogram beneath throne. SC 357(5)d; A. Houghton, "The early Seleucid mint of Laodicea ad Mare (c. 300-246 BC)," in Travaux Georges Le Rider, dies A22/P3 (unlisted combination). VF.

The clarity of this coin's reverse corrects Houghton's identification of the control in the left field which is unclear on the Spaer specimen (cf. SNG Spaer 54).