CNG 99, Lot: 343. Estimate $1500. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. Second reign, 129-125 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.79 g, 1h). Tyre mint. Dated SE 185 (128/7 BC). Diademed head right / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; to left, IEP and ΑΣ monogram flanking club surmounted by Tyre monogram; monogram below throne; [Ε]ΠΡ (date) in exergue. SC 2193; Newell, Tyre 194; HGC 9, 1117f; DCA 226. EF, toned, light marks and scratches beneath tone, a few minor pits on the obverse. Rare.