Watch List notes:

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 17.09 g, 7h). Ekbatana mint. Struck circa 295-281 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣEΛEYKOY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, two monograms above horizontal anchor above forepart of horse left; ΣΩ below throne. SC 204.1a; ESM 480, pl. XXXVI, 7 (same obv. die); HGC 9, 13c; CSE 1124 (same obv. die); Pozzi 2913–4; Ward 764. EF, attractively toned, a little off center. Very high relief.


From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Triton I (2 December 1997), lot 557.