431, Lot: 259. Estimate $300. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.27 g, 1h). Phoenician standard. Sidon mint. Dated SE 168 (145/4 BC). Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing left; palm frond over far shoulder; to left, HΞΡ (date) above ΠΑ monogram; to right, ΣΙΔΩ above aphlaston. SC 1954.2b; HGC 9, 969; DCA 152. Good VF, toned, struck from slightly worn obverse die.

Ex MNL Collection; Patrick H.C. Tan Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 84, 5 May 2010), lot 693; Auctiones 15 (18 June 1985), lot 193.