Published in CSE

CNG 109, Lot: 316. Estimate $500. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Didrachm (22mm, 6.87 g, 12h). Phoenician standard. Tyre mint. Dated SE 170 (143/2 BC). Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing left on prow left; palm frond over far shoulder; to left, club surmounted by civic monogram; to right, OP (date) above monogram. SC 1963.4b; Newell, Tyre 94; HGC 9, 973; DCA 155; CSE 756 (this coin). VF, darkly toned, some reverse encrustation.

From the MNL Collection. Ex Dennis Rider Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 375, 1 June 2016), lot 68; Arthur Houghton Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 136, 29 March 2006), lot 67.