Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 574. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $460. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146/5-139 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.17 gm, 1h). Sidon mint. Dated SE 168 (145/4 BC). Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing left on prow of galley, palm-branch over right shoulder; date and monogram to left, SIDW and aphlaston to right. SNG Spaer 1655-1656 (same obv. die); Houghton 717 (this coin). VF, iridescent toning. ($300)

From the Arthur Houghton Collection.