Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 948. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $230. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios I Soter. 162-150 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.59 g, 11h). Unofficial imitation of Antioch mint issues. Diademed head right / Tyche seated left, holding sceptre and cornucopiae, on throne with winged tritoness. SNG Spaer -; Houghton 554 (this coin). VF, toned, areas of light encrustation.

From the Arthur Houghton Collection, 554.