CNG 109, Lot: 318. Estimate $500. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.35 g, 1h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Struck circa 145-July 141 BC. Diademed head right within fillet border / Tyche, holding scepter and cornucopia, seated left on throne supported by tritoness right; monogram in exergue. SC 1984.1; HGC 9, 967. Good VF, lightly toned, minor flan flaw on obverse.

From the MNL Collection, purchased from Zuzim Judaea, October 2010. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 61 (25 September 2002), lot 828; Numismatic Fine Arts XIV (29 November 1984), lot 184; Münzen und Medaillen AG XXXVII (5 December 1968), lot 253 .