SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Didrachm (22mm, 6.87 g, 12h). Tyre mint. Dated SE 170 (143/2 BC). Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing left on prow, with palm frond over shoulder; club surmounted by Tyre monogram to left; to right, OP (date) above monogram. SC 1963.4b; HGC 9, 973; DCA 155; CSE 756 (this coin). VF, darkly toned, some reverse encrustation.
From the Dennis Rider Collection of the Coins of Tyre. Ex Arthur Houghton Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 136, 29 March 2006), lot 67.