★ Golden Hues ★

ANCIENT GREECE. SELEUKID KINGDOM. Seleukos I 'Nikator'.
Silver Tetradrachm, circa 282-281 BC. Sardes.
Obv: head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress. Rev: Zeus Nikephoros seated left, holding Nike and sceptre; monogram in left field, AΣ under throne, ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ below, ΣΕΛΕΥΚΟΥ to right.

Good Very Fine; attractive faint golden hues to devices.

Property of a London academic; acquired on the UK art market since the 1980s.

Reference: SC-3.3a. HGC 9-16a.
Die Axis: 12h.
Diameter: 28 mm.
Weight: 17.05 g.