Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 521. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos I Soter. 281-261 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.17 gm, 5h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos; monograms to outer left and right. SC 379.3c; Houghton 952 (this coin). Good VF, toned, light scratch on jaw. ($500)

From the Arthur Houghton Collection.