Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 529. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $625. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos Hierax. 242-227 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.83 gm, 12h). Ilium mint. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos; monograms to outer right and in exergue. SC 870 (this coin referenced and photographed); Houghton 650 = Bellinger, Troy T23 = WSM 1608 (this coin). VF, toned, flat strike in center of reverse. ($500)

From the Arthur Houghton Collection.