Sale: CNG 73, Lot: 460. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2006.  Sold For $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Alexander II Zabinas. 128-122 BC. AR Drachm (4.08 g, 12h). Antioch mint. Diademed head right / Athena Nikephoros standing left; two monograms to outer left. SNG Spaer 2289-2290; SMA 336; Houghton 303 (this coin). Good VF, toned, patches of light encrustation, partial flat strike on reverse. Rare.

From the Harry Strickhausen Collection. Ex Arthur Houghton Collection, 303.