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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm
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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.20 g, 1h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Dated SE 167 (146/5 BC). Diademed head right / Apollo, testing arrow and resting hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; palm frond to outer left, monogram to inner left, ZΞP (date) and monogram in exergue. SC 1906.5a; HGC 9, 957d; DCA 146. A little porosity, delamination on reverse. Near EF.
From the David Welsh Collection, purchased from Pars Coins, September 2006.
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