From the Gemini IV Auction, Closed January 8, 2008.



                  Lot # 218 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$2000 / Price 
                  Realized: US$1285 
                  SELEUCID KINGDOM. Demetrius II Nicator. Silver drachm 



             



            SELEUCID KINGDOM. Demetrius II Nicator. (first reign, 145–138 BC). 
            Silver drachm (4.21 gm). , Probably Seleucia in Pieria. Diademed 
            head of Demetrius II right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩ[Σ] ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ ΝΙΚΑΤΟΡΟΣ, anchor, 
            flukes upward, flower in inner left field. O. Hoover, “Three 
            Seleucid Notes,” AJN 12 (2000), 3. SNG Spaer 1634–1635. CSE 568. 
            Babelon 934. Very rare. Mint state. 




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  ... Lot 218 sold for high bid of $1285 [ $1477.75, or approx 1019.6475 EUR, 753.6525 GBP including the 15% buyers fee.] 

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