Sale: CNG 73, Lot: 456. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2006.  Sold For $1350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.42 g, 1h). Antioch mint. Dated SE 167 (146/5 BC). Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios seated left; palm to outer left, monogram to inner left, date and monogram in exergue. SNG Spaer 1599-1600 var. (monogram in exergue); SMA 201. Superb EF, bright surfaces.