421, Lot: 336. Estimate $150. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Drachm (17.9mm, 3.74 g, 1h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Dated SE 168 (145/4 BC). Diademed head right; fillet border / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos, testing arrow and resting hand on grounded bow; star to outer left, monograms to inner left and between legs, HΞP (date) in exergue. SC 1908.6a (this coin referenced); HGC 9, 976d; DCA 156. Good VF, toned, flan crack, flan flaws. Rare.

From the MNL Collection. Ex RJM Collection (CNG Inventory 453346, NYINC 2017); Classical Numismatic Group 37 (20 March 1996), lot 664 (part of).