264, Lot: 168. Estimate $200. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.70 g, 1h). Antioch mint. Dated SE 167 (146/5 BC). Diademed head right / Apollo seated left on omphalos, testing arrow, resting hand on bow; palm branch to outer left, monograms to inner left, ZΞP (date) and monogram and in exergue. SC 1906.5d; HGC 9, 957d. Good VF, toned, a few light scrratches.