Sale: CNG 63, Lot: 641. Estimate $600.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2003.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Alexander I. 150-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (13.89 gm). Ake mint. Dated year 163 (150/149 BC). Diademed head right / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; palm-branch behind right shoulder, monogram and GXR (date) to left, PTO right, monogram between legs. SNG Spaer 1553 (same obverse die); Houghton 797 (this coin). Toned, good VF. ($600)

Ex Arthur Houghton Collection, 797.