CNG 97, Lot: 293. Estimate $750. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.22 g, 12h). Tyre mint. Dated SE 167 (146/5 BC). Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing left on prow left; palm frond behind; to left, club surmounted by Tyre monogram; to right, ZΞP (date) above monogram. SC 1959.1c; Rouvier 1874 corr. (monogram to right); HGC 9, 970; DCA 153. EF, lightly toned, obverse a little off center.

From the Patrick H. C. Tan Collection.