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LOT 2987
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Seleukid Empire, Demetrios II Nikator AR Tetradrachm. Struck 129-128 BC. Antioch on the Orontes mint.
Diademed and bearded head to right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ ΘΕΟΥ ΝΙΚΑ-ΤΟΡΟΣ, Zeus seated to left, holding Nike in his right hand and long sceptre with his left; Ξ to outer left, Δ beneath throne. SC 2166.2a; HGC 9, 1117b corr. (photo marked 1117a). 14.00gr, 30mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Toned, areas of roughness and delaminations.
PROVENANCE:
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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