Referenced in SC and Published in CSE
CNG 109, Lot: 313. Estimate $300. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.36 g, 11h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Dated SE 168 (145/4 BC). Diademed head right within wreath / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow in right hand, resting left hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; monogram to inner left, Z between legs, HΞP (date) in exergue. SC 1907.1j (
this coin referenced); HGC 9, 957d; DCA 146; Houghton & Le Rider, "Un trésor de monnaies hellénistiques trouvé près de Suse,"
RN 1966, 117 = CSE 217 (
this coin). VF, toned, flan crack.
From the MNL Collection. Ex Stephen Glover Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 264, 21 September 2011), lot 169; Arthur Houghton Collection, acquired September 1965; Susiana, 1965(?) Hoard (IGCH 1806).