Ex Houghton Collection

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 583. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $1025. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-225 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.72 g, 11h). Uncertain mint. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios standing left, leaning on tripod and testing arrow. SC 728 (this coin referenced and illustrated); Houghton 670 (this coin). VF, toned, minor die rust on reverse.

Ex Arthur Houghton Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 69, 8 June 2005), lot 528; Schulman 265 (28 September 1976), lot 211; Glendining (27 October 1971), lot 106.