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Triton XVII Sessions 1 & 2  7 January 2014
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Lot 361

Estimate: 3000 USD
Price realized: 5500 USD
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SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. As satrap, 321-315 BC. AV Stater (17mm, 8.53 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 single pendant earring, necklace, and triple-crested Corinthian helmet adorned with a serpent / BA-ΣIΛEΩΣ [AΛ]EΞANΔ[POY], 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. (monogram); Price 3748 var. (same); HGC 9, 3a; SNG Saroglos 166–8 var. (same); Triton XVI, lot 536. Superb EF, underlying luster. Struck in high relief from fresh dies.

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