Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 581. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $275. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos VII Euergetes. 138-129 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.55 gm, 12h). Tyre mint. Dated SE 181 (132/1 BC). Diademed head right / Athena Nikephoros standing left; club surmounted by monogram to outer left, IEP and ASU to either side; date and monogram in exergue. SNG Spaer 2073; Newell, Tyre -; Houghton 763 (this coin). VF, toned, peck marks on obverse. ($200)

From the Arthur Houghton Collection.