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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1000. Estimate $2000. 
Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006. 
Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR 1/5 Tetradrachm (3.40 g, 12h). Babylon I mint. Struck circa 312-300 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / Club, quiver, and bow; to left, monogram in wreath above XA monogram. SC 84 var. = A. Spaer, "A New Type of Alexander the Great?" INJ 5 (1981), 1 var. (no XA monogram; H to right); Price 3728A (this coin referenced); ESM -; SNG Spaer -; Houghton -. EF, attractively toned. Extremely rare type and this the only example recorded with these monograms. ($2000)

From the Robert Weimer Collection. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts XXVI (14 August 1991), lot 63; Tkalec & Rauch (16 November 1987), lot 67.