137, Lot: 28. Estimate $200. Sold for $295. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos III ‘the Great’. 223-187 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.58 g). Uncertain mint, perhaps in Western Persia. Diademed head right / Apollo seated left on omphalos, testing arrow and holding bow; monograms in fields. SC 1278.2 = Houghton CSE 1313 (this coin). VF, toned, small flaw on cheek.

From the Arthur Houghton Collection.