Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 573. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146/5-139 BC. AR Drachm (4.18 gm, 12h). Seleukeia on the Calycadnus mint. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos; to inner left, star above five-lobed plant; two monograms and ISI in exergue. SNG Spaer 1652 (same dies); Houghton, Calycadnus 14 (A2/P2) = Houghton 576 (this coin). Good VF, toned, die flaws in obverse field, soft strike on reverse. Very rare. ($200)

From the Arthur Houghton Collection.