Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 342. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos I. 280-261 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.94 gm). Magnesia ad Sipylum mint. Diademed head right / BASILEWS ANTIOCOU, Herakles seated left on rock, lion's skin draped over rock, holding club on ground in right hand, left hand at his side; two monograms in exergue. SC 318b=Houghton 625=WSM 1456 (A3/P3; this coin); SNG Spaer -. Toned, good VF. Rare. ($500)

Ex Arthur Houghton Collection, 625; Petrowicz Collection (Naville X, 15-18 June 1925), lot 900; Bunbury Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 7 December 1896), lot 454.