Idealized Portrait in the Style of Alexander the Great

Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 470. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $620. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios I Soter. 162-150 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.79 g, 12h). Antioch mint. Dated SE 159 (154/3 BC). Diademed head right within wreath / Tyche seated left, holding baton and cornucopia; winged Tritoness supporting throne, two monograms to outer left, date in exergue. SNG Spaer 1270 var. (lower monogram); SMA 102. Good VF. Fine Hellenistic portrait, idealized in the style of Alexander the Great.