273, Lot: 38. Estimate $200. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 15.78 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 1906.5a; HGC 9, 957d; DCA 146. Good VF, toned, some porosity.

From the Patrick H. C. Tan Collection.