129, Lot: 160. Estimate $300. Sold for $409. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146/5-139 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 14.17 g). Sidon mint. Dated SE 168 (145/4 BC). Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing left on prow of galley, palm-branch over shoulder; date and monogram to left, SIDW and aphlaston to right. SNG Spaer 1655-1656 (same obverse die); Houghton 717 (this coin). VF, iridescent toning.

Ex Arthur Houghton Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 69, 8 June 2005), lot 574.