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Triton XXIII  14-15 Jan 2020
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Lot 459

Estimate: 5000 USD
Price realized: 3750 USD
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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. As satrap, 321-315 BC. AV Stater (17.5mm, 8.54 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Babylon I mint. Struck circa 311-300 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing single pendant earring, necklace, and triple-crested Corinthian helmet adorned with a serpent / BAΣ-IΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPO[Y], Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand, cradling stylis in left arm; below left wing, pellet above MI; monogram in wreath below right wing. SC 81.2 var. (no pellet above MI); Price 3748 var. (same); HGC 9, 3a; SNG Saroglos 166–8 var. (same); BM acc. no. 1994,0915.55 (same dies); CNG 61, lot 250 corr. (pellet not noted); Elsen 92, lot 107 corr. = Elsen 86, lot 72 corr. (same; same obv. die); Gorny & Mosch 244, lot 165 corr. (same; same dies); Goldberg 70, lot 3053 corr. (same; same obv. die); Roma XV, lot 304–5 corr. (same; the latter, same dies); Nomos 15, lot 76 corr. (same). Fully lustrous, a hint of die rust on obverse. Superb EF. Well centered. Rare variety, unnoticed in prior lisings.

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