Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 933. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos I Soter. Joint reign with Seleukos I, 294-281 BC. AR Drachm (4.13 g, 9h). Ekbatana mint. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, monogram above lion forepart left; monogram below throne. SC 211.2b; Houghton 1134 (this coin). VF, toned, light porosity. Rare.

From the Robert A. Weimer Collection. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts Fall MBS (12 October 1988), lot 395; Arthur Houghton Collection.