Ex Houghton Collection

406, Lot: 485. Estimate $150. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos VI Epiphanes Nikator. Circa 96-94 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 15.45 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Kalykadnos mint. Diademed head right / Athena Nikephoros standing left; flower to outer left, HP monogram and AN to inner left. SC 2405.3 (this coin referenced); Houghton, Calycadnus 47 (A11/P14) = CSE 536 (this coin); HGC 9, 1265. Near VF, toned, slight roughness. Rare.

From the George Bernert Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 53 (15 March 2000), lot 647; Arthur Houghton Collection, 536.