Sale: Triton V, Lot: 553. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002.  Sold For $690. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleukid Kings. Timarchos, Usurper in Babylon. 162 BC. Æ 35mm (29.79 gm). Babylon mint. Diademed head of Timarchos right / [BASILEWS] [ME]GALO[U] right, TIMAPXOY left, Nike walking left, holding wreath in right hand, palm in left. SNG Spaer 1391; Houghton, CSE, 1231 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen -; Le Rider, Suse, pl. lxv, 13; Laffaille -. VF, black patina, light adjustment marks, minor porosity. Bold portrait. Very rare. ($1000)

Ex Arthur Houghton Collection.