115, Lot: 139. Estimate $300. Sold for $206. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-280 BC. AR Drachm (16mm, 3.65 gm). Uncertain Baktrian mint (Uncertain mint 19 or Aî Khanoum). Laureate head of Zeus right / Athena Promachos, brandishing spear and holding large shield, in biga drawn by two elephants right; no apparent symbols or monograms. SC 262 or 277.2; Kritt, Bactria -; ESM -; SNG Spaer -. VF, reverse slightly double struck.

Uncertain mint 19 and Aî Khanoum are the only mints with these types that have the royal title and name in the exergue.