Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 577. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146/5-139 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.84 gm, 5h). Susa mint. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos; monogram to outer left and right, [and in exergue]. SNG Spaer -; Houghton 576 = P. Strauss, "Un trésor de monnaies hellénistiques trouvé près de Suse," RN 1971, 121 (this coin). Good VF, light iridescent toning. Rare. ($500)

From the Arthur Houghton Collection.

Demetrios II was the last Seleukid king to rule in Susa.