Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 592. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $1605. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. Second reign, 129-125 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.48 g, 12h). Tarsos mint. Diademed head right / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; two monograms to outer left. SC 2156b; Houghton, Second, group C, dies A4/P8. Good VF, lightly toned.

From the Norman Frank Collection.