Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 585. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. Second reign, 130-125 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.41 gm, 12h). Tarsos mint. Diademed head right / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; two monograms to outer left. SNG Spaer -; Houghton 480 = Houghton, Second, p. 112, dies A1/P1 (this coin). Good VF, dark iridescent toning, light graffiti in obverse field. Rare beardless portrait in second reign. ($300)

From the Arthur Houghton Collection.