Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 423. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $2450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. Second reign, 129-126/5 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.46 g, 12h). Sidon mint. Dated SE 185 (128/7 BC). Diademed head right / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; ΣI below throne, date and monogram in exergue. SC 2187a; CSE 720. Near EF. Rare.