136, Lot: 62. Estimate $200. Sold for $265. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios I. 162-150 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 16.78 g). Antioch, on the Persian Gulf, mint. Diademed head right / Nude Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding arrow in right hand, left hand resting on bow; monogram outer left, monogram outer right. Mørkholm, Seleucid -; SNG Spaer -; CSE 1095 = Strauss, “Un tresor de monnaies hellenistiques trouve pres de Suse,” in RN1971, pg. 115, 76 (this coin). VF, darkly toned.

From the Arthur Houghton Collection.