Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 588. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.07 g, 12h). Sidon mint. Dated SE 168 (145/4 BC). Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing left, palm frond over far shoulder; before, HΞP (date) above monogram; behind, ΣIΔΩ above aplustre. SC 1954.2a; Rouvier 1237 var. (monogram). EF, toned. Rare.

Ex New York Sale XVII (9 January 2008), lot 108.