399, Lot: 238. Estimate $150. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 13.51 g, 12h). Tyre mint. Dated SE 169 (144/3 BC). Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing left on prow left, with palm frond under far wing; club surmounted by monogram to left, ΘΞP (date) above monogram to right. SC 1959.3b; HGC 9, 970; DCA 153. VF, toned, areas of corrosion and smoothing.