CNG 99, Lot: 341. Estimate $500. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.09 g, 12h). Soloi mint. Diademed head right within laurel wreath / Tyche Nikephoros seated left, resting left elbow on shield; to outer left, monogram above owl standing right on grapes above unclear monogram. SC 1892.2; HGC 9, 964; CSE II 490 (same dies). VF, brightly cleaned, areas of roughness. Rare.

Ex Baldwin’s 90 (24 September 2014), lot 1071 (realized £440).