CNG 108, Lot: 344. Estimate $500. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 16.38 g, 1h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Struck circa 145-July 141 BC. Diademed head right within fillet border / Tyche, holding scepter and cornucopia, seated left on throne supported by tritoness right; monogram in exergue. SC 1984.1; HGC 9, 967. Near EF, deeply toned, minor lamination on obverse.

From the MNL Collection. Ex Jencek Historical Enterprise Inventory Y04017 (November 2012); Numismatic Fine Arts [XIX] (18 December 1987), lot 440; Numismatic Fine Arts XI (8 December 1982), lot 228; Hess-Leu 36 (17 April 1968), lot 327.