104, Lot: 89. Estimate $750. Sold for $460. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-280 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 16.80 gm). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Struck circa 296/5-280 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / Athena Promachos, brandishing spear and holding large shield, in quadriga right drawn by elephants; anchor and Q above, monogram below shield. SC 130.43a; ESM 122; SNG Spaer -; Houghton -. VF, porous.

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.