Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 557. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios I Soter. 162-150 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.83 gm, 12h). Antioch on the Persian Gulf mint. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos; monogram to outer left and right. SNG Spaer -; Houghton 1092 = Mørkholm, Seleucid, p. 34, dies A1/P1 = Mørkholm, "A Greek Coin Hoard from Susiana," Acta Archaeologica 36 (1965), pl. III, C (this coin). VF, toned, scattered light marks on obverse. Rare mint. ($300)

From the Arthur Houghton Collection. Ex Naville X (15 June 1925), lot 1065.