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Triton XXIV  19-20 Jan 2021
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Lot 745

Estimate: 3000 USD
Price realized: 6500 USD
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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. As satrap, 321-315 BC. AV Stater (18.5mm, 8.55 g, 10h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Babylon I mint. Struck circa 311-300 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing triple-crested Corinthian helmet decorated with a serpent, single pendant earring, and necklace / [BA]-ΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY, Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand, cradling stylis in left arm; MI below left wing, monogram in wreath below right wing. SC 81.2 var. (pellet in rho of monogram); Price 3748 var. (same); HGC 9, 3a; SNG Saroglos 166–8 var. (same); Triton XVI, lot 536; Gorny & Mosch 203, lot 143; Roma II, lot 355. Underlying luster, slightly off center. Near EF.

From the Collection of a Northern California Gentleman, purchased from A. Kosoff, 27 July 1965. Reportedly ex Jules Furthman Collection.
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