SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 4.12 g, 9h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint II. Struck 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 quadriga of elephants right; anchor above, Θ between shield and elephants. SC 131.7; ESM 90; HGC 9, 32a; Sunrise 173 (this coin). Light porosity, slight die shift on obverse. VF.
From the TAB Collection. Ex Sunrise Collection (Triton XVIII, 6 January 2015), lot 128, purchased from Harlan J. Berk.