Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 580. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $225. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos VII Euergetes. 138-129 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.20 gm, 11h). Seleukeia on the Calycadnus mint. Diademed head right / Athena Nikephoros standing left; plant to outer left; to inner left, owl above AI; ISI and monogram in exergue. SNG Spaer -; Houghton, Calycadnus 16 (A1/P2) = Houghton 530 (this coin). VF, toned. Very rare. ($300)

From the Arthur Houghton Collection.