Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 942. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos III ‘the Great’. 223-187 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.14 g, 1h). Uncertain mint 49 in Phrygia (Apameia?). Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios seated left; no control markings. SC 1004 (this coin referenced); Houghton 679 (this coin). VF, iridescent toning, softly struck, die break on reverse. Rare.

From the Arthur Houghton Collection, 679.