SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29.5mm, 16.59 g, 1h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Dated SE 168 (145/4 BC). Diademed head right within wreath / Apollo, testing arrow and resting hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; monograms to inner left and between legs, [H]ΞP (date) in exergue. SC 1907.1b; HGC 9, 957d; DCA2 85. Lightly toned, flan crack, a little off center. Near EF. From the Wild Rose Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 55 (13 September 2000), lot 678; Classical Numismatic Group 39 (18 September 1996), lot 685; Classical Numismatic Group 37 (20 March 1996), lot 649.
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