Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 531. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos III. 223-187 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.65 gm, 12h). "Sardes" mint. Series 3, circa 203-197 BC. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos. SC 995 (this coin referenced and photographed); Mørkholm, Some, 15-16 (obv. die A2); Houghton 611 (this coin). VF, toned, die break on forehead, light scratches under tone in field on reverse. ($300)

From the Arthur Houghton Collection. Ex Kricheldorf 34 (24 June 1980), lot 175.