Ex Jameson Collection

Triton XXII, Lot: 326. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 4.08 g, 11h). Seleukeia in Pieria mint (probably). Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΔHMHTPIOY NIKATOPOΣ, upright anchor; monogram to inner left. SC 1927.2a; HGC 9, 982; de Clercq 166 (same dies); Jameson 1724 (this coin). Good VF, toned, light porosity. Rare.

From the MNL Collection, purchased from Perseus Ancient Coins, July 2015. Ex Münzen und Medaillen GmbH 39 (27 November 2013), lot 101; Künker 104 (27 September 2005), lot 219; Münzen und Medaillen AG 88 (17 May 1999), lot 291; Münzen und Medaillen FPL 266 (July 1966), no. 16; Robert Jameson Collection (c. 1932).