Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 345. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos V. 164-162 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.39 gm). Ake-Ptolemais mint. Diademed head right; AB monogram behind / [B]ASILEWS [A]NTIOCOU EUPATOROS, Zeus seated left, holding Nike in right hand, sceptre in left; palm to outer left, AB monogram above knee. SNG Spaer -; Strauss "Un tresor de monnaies hellenistiques trouvé pres de Suse," in RN 1971, p. 113, 55 (same dies); Houghton 795 (this coin). Toned good VF, some light porosity. ($1000)

Ex Arthur Houghton Collection, 795.