Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 560. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios I Soter. 162-150 BC. AR Drachm (3.95 gm, 9h). Ekbatana mint. Philip, magistrate. Dated SE 161 (152/1 BC). Diademed head right; monogram below chin / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos; date and QEO to outer left, FILIP to outer right. SNG Spaer 1384; Houghton 1262 = Houghton & Le Rider, "Un trésor de monnaies hellénistiques trouvé près de Suse," RN 1966, 74 (this coin). VF, toned. ($150)

From the Arthur Houghton Collection.