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Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1000. Closing Date: 
Monday, 9 January 2006. Sold For $1,600 

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 
312-281 BC. AR 1/5 Tetradrachm (3.40 g, 12h). 
Babylon I mint. Struck circa 312-300 BC. Head of 
Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / 
Club, quiver, and bow; to left, monogram in wreath 
above XA monogram. SC 84 var. = A. Spaer, "A New 
Type of Alexander the Great?" INJ 5 (1981), 1 var. 
(no XA monogram; H to right); Price 3728A (this 
coin referenced); ESM -; SNG Spaer -; Houghton -. 
EF, attractively toned. Extremely rare type and 
this the only example recorded with these 
monograms. ($2000)

From the Robert Weimer Collection. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts 
XXVI (14 August 1991), lot 63; Tkalec & Rauch (16 November 1987), lot 67.

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