236, Lot: 303. Estimate $100. Sold for $78. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. Æ (21mm, 7.06 g, 12h). Uncertain mint 96 in Phoenicia or Koile Syria. Diademed head right / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; ΔI•I• below throne. SC 1940; HGC 9, 994. Near VF, earthen black patina. Rare.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.