Sale: CNG 63, Lot: 646. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2003.  Sold For $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios II. Second Reign, 129-125 BC. AR Tetradrachm (13.06 gm). Ake mint. Dated year 184 (129/8 BC). Diademed and bearded head right / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; monogram left, DPR (date) right, pellet between legs. SNG Spaer -; Newell, LSM -; Houghton -. Good VF, scuff on neck, chip on edge. Unpublished and unique. ($2500)

This coin is from the first issue of the dated Phoenician eagle series at Ake. The control AP was replaced the following year, and the convention of a mintmark was added (cf. Newell, LSM 2ff).