Triton XVIII, Lot: 720. Estimate $500. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios I Soter. 162-150 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30.5mm, 16.76 g, 7h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Undated series, struck circa 162-155/4 BC. Diademed head right in laurel wreath border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΔHMHTPIOY, Tyche, holding scepter in right hand, cradling cornucopia in left arm, seated left on backless throne with winged Tritoness support; HP monogram in exergue. SC 1638.2d; SMA 98; HGC 9, 795f; Gaziantep 1591 (same obv. die); Hunterian 6. Near EF, attractive gray patina with golden hues around the devices.

From the collection of a Southern Pathologist, purchased from C. H. Wolfe, 14 January 1989.