CNG 108, Lot: 339. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29.5mm, 16.01 g, 1h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Dated SE 168 (145/4 BC). Diademed head right within laurel wreath / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and resting hand on bow, seated left on omphalos; palm frond to outer left, monograms to inner left and between legs, HΞP (date) in exergue. SC 1907.1e; SMA 209a; HGC 9, 957d; DCA 146. EF, deeply toned.

From the MNL Collection. Ex Atlas Numismatics Inventory 1016579 (August 2014); Jonathan K. Kern Collection.