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The Usurper Timarchos

Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 467. Estimate $500. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007. 
Sold For $625. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Timarchos. Usurper, 164-161 BC. AR Drachm (3.81 g, 5h). Ekbatana mint. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios seated left, holding arrow, resting on bow. SNG Spaer -; Houghton 1230 (this coin). VF, find patina, light cleaning marks on obverse, some roughness. Very rare.



From the Arthur Houghton Collection, 1230.