Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 422. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $705. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. Second reign, 129-126/5 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.33 g, 12h). Damaskos mint. Dated SE 187 (126/5 BC). Diademed head right / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; two monograms to outer left, monogram below throne, [date in exergue]. SC 2181.9; LSM 76 (same dies as illustration). Good VF, light earthen deposits.