SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. Second satrapy and kingship, 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.96 g, 5h). Seleukeia in Pieria mint. Struck circa 300-281 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; monogram-in-circle in left field, KP below throne. SC 29.1b; Le Rider, Antioche 27 (A4/P13 – this coin, illustrated); HGC 9, 16d. Attractive old collection tone, patches of find patina, small die break on obverse, cleaning scratches on reverse. Near EF. From the Wild Rose Collection. Ex Robert W. Bartlett Bequest Sold for the Benefit of the American Numismatic Society (Classical Numismatic Group Keystone Auction 4, 2 September 2021), lot 91; Numismatic Fine Arts XVI (2 December 1985), lot 238.
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