Ex Raymond and Houghton Collections

CNG 109, Lot: 326. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios II Nikator. Second reign, 129-125 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.55 g, 1h). Damaskos mint. Dated SE 185 (128/7 BC). Diademed head right within fillet border / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; monogram to outer left, monogram below throne, EΠΡ (date) in exergue. SC 2181.5 (this coin referenced); Schwei Group 4, 70 (A11/P41) = CSE 839 (this coin); LSM –; HGC 9, 1116d; DCA 223. Near EF, attractive deep iridescent tone.

From the MNL Collection. Ex Jencek Historical Enterprise inventory Y04022 (November 2012); W. K. Raymond Collection; Arthur Houghton Collection; Numismatic Art & Ancient Coins 2 (15 May 1981), lot 98.