Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 555. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios I Soter. 162-150 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.88 gm, 9h). Susa mint. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos; monogram to outer left, AN in exergue. SNG Spaer 1367 var. (same dies; AN cut over DI in die); Houghton 1071 = P. Strauss, "Un trésor de monnaies hellénistiques trouvé près de Suse," RN 1971, 62 (this coin). VF, toned, light die shift and minor flan flaws on obverse. ($300)

From the Arthur Houghton Collection.