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E-Sale 40  28 Oct 2017
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Lot 262

Estimate: 1000 GBP
Price realized: 1400 GBP
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Seleukid Empire, Seleukos I Nikator AR Tetradrachm. Susa, circa 296/5-281 BC. Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣEΛEYKOY, Athena, brandishing spear overhead in right hand, shield on left arm, in biga of elephants to right; above, anchor above Δ, A to lower right. SC 177.5; ESM -; CSE 1032; SNG Spaer -; HGC 9, 18c. 17.18g, 28mm, 11h.

Very Fine. Rare.

From the 1960s Andragoras-Sophytes Group, present in Germany in 1975, subsequently exported to the USA.

This is a key coin in the exceptionally important group presented for the first time in Roma Numismatics XIV (lots 325-367) which helped to redate the coins of both Andragoras and Sophytes to the mid-third century BC.
Key Coin in the 1960s Andragoras-Sophytes Group.
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