122, Lot: 139. Estimate $300. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146/5-139 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.54 g, 12h). Antioch on the Persian Gulf mint. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos; monograms to outer left and right. SNG Spaer -; Mørkholm, Seleucid, p. 37, A1-P1 (pl. V, 6) = P. Strauss, "Un trésor de monnaies hellénistiques trouvé près de Suse," RN 1971, 130 = Houghton 1102 (this coin). VF, toned. Rare.

From the Arthur Houghton Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen XXXVII (5 December 1968), lot 252; Susiana, 1965? Hoard (IGCH 1806).