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Auction 117  19-20 May 2021
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Lot 260

Estimate: 3000 USD
Price realized: 5500 USD
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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. Second satrapy and kingship, 312-281 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.55 g, 7h). 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 griffin springing right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY, Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand, cradling stylis in left arm; H in left field, monogram in wreath below left wing. SC 81.6-7 var. (position of controls, serpent on helmet); Price 3707 var. (same); HGC 9, 3a; SNG Saroglos 158. Lightly toned, underlying luster, tiny metal flaws on reverse. Near EF. Well centered.

Ex Roma XIV (21 September 2017), lot 301; Roma II (2 October 2011), lot 354.
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