Triton XVIII, Lot: 164. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 4.10 g, 12h). Seleukeia in Pieria mint. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩ[Σ] ΔHMHTPIOY NIKATOPOΣ, anchor; lotus flower to inner left. SC 1927.1; HGC 9, 982; Sunrise 205 (this coin). Near EF, toned, tiny flan flaw on obverse. Rare.

From the Sunrise Collection. Ex G. Hirsch 256 (5 May 2008), lot 372.