Triton XVIII, Lot: 163. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.38 g, 1h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Dated SE 167 (146/5 BC). Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΔHMHTPIOY ΘEOY ΦIΛAΔ-EΛΦOY NIKA-TOPOΣ, Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos, testing arrow in his right hand, left hand on bow set on ground to right; palm frond to outer left, monogram to inner left, ZΞP (date) and monogram in exergue. SC 1906.5a; SMA –; De Clercq 142; HGC 9, 957d; DCA 146 corr. (monogram); Sunrise 204 (this coin). EF.

From the Sunrise Collection.