Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 522. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-280 BC. AV Stater (8.55 gm, 8h). Seleukeia on the Tigris I mint. Struck circa 300-280 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with a serpent / BASILEW-S SELEUKOU, Nike standing left, holding wreath in right hand, stylis in left; monogram below right wing. SC 115.2; SNG Spaer -; ESM 1 (same dies as specimen D). EF, softly struck. Rare. ($5000)