Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 553. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios I Soter. 162-150 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.63 gm, 1h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Diademed head right; monogram to left / Tyche seated left, holding sceptre and cornucopiae; winged Tritoness supporting throne. SNG Spaer 1361 (same dies); Houghton 998 (this coin). VF, toned. ($300)

From the Arthur Houghton Collection.