389, Lot: 344. Estimate $2000. Sold for $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios II Nikator. Second reign, 129-125 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 13.21 g, 1h). Ptolemaïs (Ake) mint. Dated SE 186 (127/6 BC). Diademed and horned head right / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; two monograms to left, ςΠP (date) to right. SC 2204.2; HGC 9, 1124; DCA 231. VF, lightly toned, some roughness. Very rare.

From the Dr. Patrick H. C. Tan Collection. Ex New York Sale XXXIV (6 January 2015), lot 186.