Sale: CNG 64, Lot: 383. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 24 September 2003.  Sold For $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos Hierax. 246-227 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.39 gm). Lampsakos mint. Diademed head right / Apollo seated right on omphalos, holding arrow and bow; torch inner left above arrow, forepart of Pegasos and monogram in exergue. SC 849.2; Houghton, "The Seleucid Mint at Lampsacus," ANSMN 23, A9/P14; WSM 1552a (same dies). Toned VF. Scarce. ($400)

From the Arthur Houghton Collection.