Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 344. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos IV. 175-164 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.89 gm). Ekbatana mint. Diademed head right / BASILEWS [A]NTIOCOU QE-OU, Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding arrow in right hand, left hand resting on bow set on ground; horsehead left, DIK SA[R] in exergue. SNG Spaer -; Le Rider, Suse pl. LXIII, 8 var. (letters in exergue); Houghton 1211 = Houghton & LeRider, "Un tresor de monnaies hellenistiques trouve pres de Suse" in RN 1966, pg. 114, 21 (this coin). Toned good VF, light scratches. ($500)

Ex Arthur Houghton Collection, 1211.