CNG 108, Lot: 349. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios II Nikator. Second reign, 129-125 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 4.11 g, 10h). Tarsos mint, “Royal workshop”. Diademed and horned head right / Zeus Nikpehoros seated left; two monograms to outer leftZeus Nikpehoros seated left; two monograms to outer left. SC 2158 corr. (lower monogram); Houghton, Second –; HGC 9, 1128a; SNG Spaer 2204 (same dies). EF, lightly toned, flan flaw in field on obverse. Well struck. Extremely rare.

From the MNL Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Review XL.2 (Summer 2015), no. 403602.

The clarity of the lower monogram on this example verifies that this drachm is a fraction of the tetradrachm issue SC 2157.