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Ex Tan and Houghton Collections
SC and HGC Plate Coin

CNG 109, Lot: 323. Estimate $3000.
Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios II Nikator. Second reign, 129-125 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.37 g, 12h). Tarsos mint, “Royal workshop”. Diademed and horned head right within fillet border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΔHMHTPIOY ΘEOY NIKA-TOPOΣ, Zeus Nikephoros seated left; two monograms to outer left. SC 2154 (this coin referenced and illustrated); Houghton, Second, p. 112, dies A1/P1, pl. 27 = CSE 480 (this coin); HGC 9, 1115 (this coin illustrated). Good VF, dark iridescent toning, graffiti in field on obverse, slightly off center on reverse. Unique.


From the MNL Collection. Ex Patrick H. C. Tan Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 97, 17 September 2014), lot 294; Arthur Houghton Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 69, 8 June 2005), lot 585.