Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 457. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II. Second Reign, 130-125 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.47 gm). Ake Ptolemais mint. Struck 127-126 BC. Diademed and bearded head of Demetrios right / BASILEWS DHMHTRIOU QEOU NIKATORO[S], Zeus enthroned left, holding Nike and lotus-tipped sceptre; monogram and M in exergue. SNG Spaer -; Newell, LSM 4, pl. I, 5 (same obverse die); Houghton -. Toned, good VF, some roughness before face. ($750)