Third Known Demetrios II Sandan Drachm

177, Lot: 125. Estimate $200. Sold for $1150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. Second reign, 129-126/5 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 3.76 g, 12h). Tarsos mint. Struck circa 128 BC. Diademed head right, wearing long beard / Sandan standing right on back of horned, winged animal standing right; two monograms to outer left. A. Houghton, "The Second Reign of Demetrios II of Syria at Tarsos," ANSMN 24 (1979), p. 115, A1/P1 = BMC 23 (same dies); Babelon, Rois -; SNG Spaer -; Houghton I -. VF, porous. Extremely rare, the third known.

Ex Garth Drewry Collection; Berk BBS 98 (7 October 1997), lot 167.