Search


CNG Bidding Platform

Information

Products and Services



Research Coins: Electronic Auction

 
322, Lot: 361. Estimate $200.
Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA, n/a. n/a. Demetrios II Nikator. Second reign, 129-125 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 13.93 g, 12h). Tyre mint. Dated SE 184 (129/8 BC). Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing left on prow, with palm frond behind; to left, monogram above club surmounted by Tyre monogram; to right, monogram above ΔΠP (date); monogram between legs. SC 2195.2c; Newell, Tyre 162; HGC 9, 1122; DCA 230. VF, struck from a worn obverse die. Interestingly, the date appears on the obverse as well (see at apporximately 8:30), perhaps from a clashed die or having been overstruck on a mint error brockage.