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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 7335152, member: 86498&quot;]Demetrios II Ar Tetradrachm Sidon 141-140 BC Obv. Bust right diademed and draped. Rv Eagle wings folded standing left&nbsp; Houghton Collection 718 This coin illustrated SC 1954.6b This coin illustrated&nbsp; HGC 969 This coin illustrated. 13.56 grms 25 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1280905[/ATTACH]I bought this coin in 1998. I have looked for an auction record of this coin as I know that Houghton had disposed of it a number of years before I had purchased it. I would really love to know when and where. Thus I have owned it long before it became the plate specimen in both SC and HGC. </p><p>&nbsp; The history of these coins is rather interesting. For about a century the region was under the control of the Ptolemies thus they used the Ptolemaic standard tetradrachms. However in 199 BC Antiochos III took the region from the Ptolemies and established Seleukid rule. Oddly about 50 years later the Seleukids start minting these tetradrachms at the old Ptolemaic standard employing a reverse type which would be familiar to those from that region.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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