Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 582. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos VII Euergetes. 138-129 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.81 gm, 11h). Tyre mint. Dated SE 182 (131/0 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 2078; Newell, Tyre 193; Houghton 765 (this coin). VF, toned, bold portrait. ($300)

From the Arthur Houghton Collection.