441, Lot: 175. Estimate $150. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 13.40 g, 1h). Phoenician standard. Sidon mint. Dated SE 171 (142/1 BC). Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing left; palm frond in background; to left, AOP (date) above monogram; to right, ΣIΔΩ above aphlaston; monogram between legs. SC 1959.5b; Newell, Tyre –; HGC 9, 970; DCA 153. VF, lightly toned, some roughness, hairline flan crack, area of weak strike.