CNG 87, Lot: 643. Estimate $750. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. Second reign, 129-125 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.32 g, 12h). Damaskos mint. Dated SE 184 or 185 (129/8 or 128/7 BC). Diademed head right / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; ΞΔ monogram below throne; [date in exergue]. SC 2181.2b or 3b; LSM 69α-γ and 70α-γ (same obv. die); HGC 9, 1116d. VF, slight porosity.