Watch List notes:

SELEUKID KINGS OF SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator, 312-281 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 26 mm, 16.84 g, 5 h), a contemporary imitation, uncertain mint in the East, after 296/5. Laureate head of Zeus to right. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ / ΣEΛEΥK[OΥ] Athena, brandishing spear overhead in her right hand and holding shield in her left, standing right in quadriga of elephants moving to right; above to right, anchor right. Cf. SC 156-7 (for prototype). A very interesting contemporary imitation of slightly barbarous style. Some scrapes and with light pitting on the reverse, otherwise, very fine.


From an old Swiss collection, ex Elsen FPL 145, August 1992, 41.