273, Lot: 39. Estimate $200. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 13.50 g, 1h). Sidon mint. Dated SE 173 (140/39 BC). Diademed head right / Eagle standing left, palm branch over shoulder; to left, ΓOP (date) above monogram; to right, ΣIΔΩ above aplustre. SC 1954.7 var.; HGC 9, 969; DCA 154. VF, toned, small flan split, some roughness.

From the Patrick H. C. Tan Collection.

The secondary control which is found between the eagle’s legs is missing on this coin.