Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 558. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios I Soter. 162-150 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.62 gm, 1h). Antioch on the Persian Gulf mint. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos; monogram to outer left and in exergue. SNG Spaer -; Mørkholm, Seleucid, p. 34, obv. die A2; Houghton 1094 = P. Strauss, "Un trésor de monnaies hellénistiques trouvé près de Suse," RN 1971, 75 (this coin). VF, toned. Rare mint. ($300)

From the Arthur Houghton Collection.