Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1037. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 145-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.78 g, 1h). Susa mint. Struck 145-144 BC. Diademed head right / BASILEWS DHMHTRIOU, Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos; monogram to outer left, outer right, and in exergue. SNG Spaer -; Houghton 1082 = P. Strauss, "Un trésor de monnaies hellénistiques trouvé près de Suse," RN 1971, 120 (this coin). Good VF, dark iridescent toning, slightly weak in centre of obverse. Rare. ($750)

From the Arthur Houghton Collection, 1082. Ex Susiana, 1965 hoard (IGCH 1806).