369, Lot: 219. Estimate $150. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 13.67 g, 1h). Sidon mint. Dated SE 169 (144/3 BC). Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing left, palm frond over far shoulder; to left, ΘΞP (date) above monogram; to right, ΣIΔΩ above aphlaston. SC 1954.3a; HGC 9, 969. VF, toned, areas of roughness.

From the collection of David Sellar MVO, former Lord Lyon King of Arms.