Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 543. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos IV Epiphanes. 175-164 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.96 gm, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos; monogram to inner left. SNG Spaer 1197 (same obv. die); Houghton 981 = Mørkholm, "A Greek Coin Hoard from Susiana," Acta Archaeologica 36 (1965), p. 132, 38 (this coin). Good VF, toned. Attractive high relief bust. ($500)

From the Arthur Houghton Collection.