CNG 108, Lot: 343. Estimate $500. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 13.60 g, 12h). Phoenician standard. Tyre mint. Dated SE 167 (146/5 BC). Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing left on prow left; palm frond over far shoulder; to left, club surmounted by Tyre monogram; to right, ZΞP (date) above monogram. SC 1959.1b; Rouvier 1873; HGC 9, 970; DCA 153. Good VF, deeply toned, traces of find patina, minor flaw in field on obverse.

From the MNL Collection, purchased from Eukratides Numismatics, 22 July 2010.