Ex Houghton Collection and Susiana Hoard

Triton XVIII, Lot: 165. Estimate $1500. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 16.83 g, 4h). Susa mint. Struck 145-144 BC. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΔHMH-TPIOY, Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos, testing arrow in his right hand, left hand on bow set on ground to right; monogram to outer left and outer right, [uncertain monogram in exergue]. SC 1995.2 (this coin referenced); Sunrise 206 = CSE 1083 = P. Strauss, "Un trésor de monnaies hellénistiques trouvé près de Suse," Revue Numismatique 13 (6th series, 1971), 121 (this coin); HGC 9, 960. VF, toned. Very rare.

From the Sunrise Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 69 (8 June 2005), lot 577; Arthur Houghton Collection, 1083; Susiana, 1965 hoard (IGCH 1806).