Watch List notes:

SELEUKID KINGS OF SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator, first reign, 146-138 BC. Didrachm (Silver, 20 mm, 7.00 g, 1 h), Phoenician standard. Sidon, SE 169 = 144/3. Diademed and draped bust of Demetrios II to right. Rev. ΒAΣIΛEΩΣ - ΔHMHTPIOY Eagle standing left with closed wings; behind, palm frond; to left, ΘΞP (date) above monogram of ΠA; to right, ΣΙΔΩ above aphlaston; between the eagle's legs, monogram of ΓP. SC 1955.1. Lightly toned and unusually well preserved for this denomination. Slightly rough and with a minor flan crack, otherwise, about extremely fine.


From the collection of Walter Weise, Künker 347, 22 March 2021, 830 (with collector's ticket) and ex Spink Numismatic Circular XCI.3, June 2003, GK0939 (with original ticket).