440, Lot: 205. Estimate $150. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 13.67 g, 12h). Tyre mint. Dated SE 167 (146/5 BC). Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing left on prow left; palm frond behind; to left, club surmounted by Tyre monogram; to right, ZΞP (date) above monogram. SC 1959.1b; HGC 9, 970; DCA 153. VF, areas of porosity.