Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 994. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.11 g, 5h). Seleukeia in Pieria mint. Struck circa 300-281 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / BASILEWS SELEUKOU, Zeus Nikephoros seated left; monogram in left field, KP below throne. SC 29.1b; Le Rider, Antioche 24 (A3/P10); WSM 890; SNG Spaer 33; Houghton 401. EF. ($500)