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Triton XVIII Sessions 1 & 2  6 January 2015
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Lot 706

Estimate: 3000 USD
Price realized: 7500 USD
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SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AV Stater (19mm, 8.54 g, 3h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Babylon I mint. Struck circa 311-300 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with a serpent on the bowl / BA-ΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔ[POY], Nike standing left, holding wreath and stylis; monogram in wreath below left wing, HP monogram below right wing. SC 81.9 corr. var. (position of monogram; slightly different monogram in wreath & sphinx on helmet); Price 3716 corr. var. (same); HGC 9, 3a; SNG Saroglos 161 corr. var. (monogram in wreath; sphinx on helmet); CNG 94, lot 710 (same obv. die); CNG 90, lot 656 (same obv. die); Goldberg 78, lot 2340; Goldberg 75, lot 2480 (same obv. die). Superb EF, fully lustrous, a couple very faint scratches.

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