Watch List notes:

Seleukid Empire, Seleukos I Nikator AR Tetradrachm. In the types of Alexander III of Macedon. Seleukia on the Tigris I, circa 300 BC. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated to left, holding sceptre; [ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ] below, ΣΕΛΕΥΚΟ[Υ] to right, monogram within circle in left field. U. Wartenberg and J. Kagan, 'Some comments on a new hoard from the Balkan area', in Travaux de Numismatique Grecque offerts a Georges Le Rider, 1999. p. 399, 85 (Seleucis Pieria); for the same monogram, but not within circle cf. SC 117.4 (Seleucia on the Tigris), and HGC 9, 12i. 16.99g, 25mm, 12h.

Extremely Fine; beautiful old cabinet tone, same dies as subsequent lot.

From the inventory of a UK dealer.