397, Lot: 210. Estimate $150. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 16.21 g, 1h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Dated SE 167 (146/5 BC). Diademed head right / Apollo seated left on omphalos, testing arrow, resting hand on bow; monogram to inner left, ZΞP (date) and monogram in exergue. SC 1906.2b var. (monogram in exergue); HGC 9, 957d; DCA 146. VF, toned, a few cleaning marks.