Triton XX, Lot: 347. Estimate $500. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.73 g, 12h). Uncertain mint in eastern Cilicia (Mopsos?). Dated SE 170 (143/2 BC). Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΔHMHTPIOY ΘEOY ΦIΛAΔE-ΛΦOY NIKATOPO-Σ, Apollo Delphios, nude, seated left on omphalos, testing arrow in his right hand, left hand on bow set on ground to right; [monogram below legend on each side, OP (date) in exergue]. SC 1899.1; CSE II 502 (same dies); SNG Spaer –; HGC 9, 957b; DCA 150. Good VF, old cabinet tone, flat strike at high point of obverse, reverse off center. Very rare.

Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG 52 (19 June 1975), lot 213.