Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 298. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. Second reign, 129-126/5 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.60 g, 1h). Antioch mint. Struck circa 129-128 BC. Diademed head right / BASILEWS DHMHTRIOU QEOU NIKA-TOROS, Zeus Nikephoros seated left; X to outer left, O below throne. SMA 320; Babelon 1212; SNG Spaer 2162; Houghton 288-9. Near EF, lightly toned, a few minor marks.