209, Lot: 207. Estimate $200. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 13.84 g, 1h). Sidon mint. Dated SE 169 (144/3 BC). Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing left, palm branch over shoulder; before, ΘΞP (date) above monogram; behind, ΣIΔΩ above aplustre. SC 1954.3a. Good VF, toned, struck from a rusty obverse die.