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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 576. Estimate $400. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005. 
Sold For $435. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146/5-139 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.50 gm, 1h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Diademed head right / Tyche seated left, holding sceptre and cornucopiae; winged Tritoness supporting throne; monogram in exergue. SNG Spaer 1752; Houghton 1010 = SNG Lockett 3151 (this coin). Good VF, toned, small edge split. ($400)

From the Arthur Houghton Collection. Ex R.C. Lockett Collection (Glendining, 21-23 February 1961), lot 2609; Naville X (15 June 1925), lot 1065; Bunbury Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 7 December 1896), lot 527.