Rare Demetrios II Drachm - Ex Houghton Collection

264, Lot: 193. Estimate $300. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. Second reign, 129-125 BC. AR Drachm (16mm, 4.15 g, 12h). Antioch mint. Struck 129-128 BC. Diademed head right / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; Ξ and monogram in exergue. SC 2167a (this coin referenced); CSE 287 (this coin); HGC 9, 1127a. Good VF, toned.

From the Stephen Glover Collection. Ex Arthur Houghton Collection, 287.

Struck from the same obverse die as the following lot.