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Ex Houghton Collection – SC and HGC Plate Coin

CNG 97, Lot: 294. Estimate $750.
Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. Second reign, 129-125 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.37 g, 12h). Tarsos mint, “Royal workshop”. Diademed and horned head right / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; two monograms to outer left. SC 2154 (this coin referenced and illustrated); Houghton, Second, p. 112, dies A1/P1, pl. 27 = CSE 480 (this coin); HGC 9, 1115 (this coin illustrated). Good VF, dark iridescent toning, graffiti in field on obverse, reverse off center.


From the Patrick H. C. Tan Collection. Ex Arthur A. Houghton Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 69, 8 June 2005), lot 585.