Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 944. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $430. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos IV Epiphanes. 175-164 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.77 g, 1h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios seated left; monogram in exergue. SNG Spaer 1196; Le Rider, Suse pl. XXV, I-M; Houghton 980 = P. Strauss, "Un trésor de monnaies hellénistiques trouvé près de Suse," RN 1971, 33 (this coin). VF, toned, obverse struck a little softly.

From the Arthur Houghton Collection, 980. Ex Susiana, 1965 hoard (IGCH 1806).