Watch List notes:

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. As satrap, 321-315 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.59 g, 5h). 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 / BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPO[Y], Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand, cradling stylis in left arm; MI in left field, monogram in wreath below left wing. SC 81.3 corr. (griffin, not sphinx); Price 3749 corr. (same); HGC 9, 3a; Sunrise 168 (this coin). Superb EF, a few minor spots of encrustation. Well centered strike from fresh dies.


From the Sunrise Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 73 (13 September 2006), lot 436.