Sale: CNG 61, Lot: 853. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 25 September 2002.  Sold For $2145. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleukid Kings. Antiochos IX. 114-95 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.38 gm). Tripolis mint. Year 208 (105/104 BC). Diademed head right / Tyche standing left, holding tiller and cornucopiae bound with fillet; two monograms left, rose right, date in exergue. SNG Spaer 2731; Houghton 693 = Jameson 2359 (this coin). Attractively toned VF. Very rare. ($2000)

Ex Arthur Houghton Collection; Numismatic Fine Arts Auction V (23 February 1978), lot 209; Egger Auktion 41 (18 November 1918); Jameson Collection. 2359.