Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 570. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Alexander I (Balas). 152/1-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.20 gm, 1h). Antioch on the Persian Gulf mint. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos; monogram to outer left and outer right. SNG Spaer -; Mørkholm, Seleucid, p. 37, dies A4/P4; Houghton 1101 = P. Strauss, "Un trésor de monnaies hellénistiques trouvé près de Suse," RN 1971, 113 (this coin). VF, darkly toned, die rust in obverse fields. Very rare. ($300)

From the Arthur Houghton Collection.