Triton XIX, Lot: 2071. Estimate $10000. Sold for $18000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios I Soter. 162-150 BC. AV Stater (17mm, 8.59 g, 1h). Uncertain mint in Cilicia or northern Syria. Struck circa 152/1 BC. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΔHMHTPIOY ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ, cornucopia; no control marks. SC 1623 (this coin illustrated); HGC 9, 784 (this coin illustrated). Near EF, lustrous, flan flaw on obverse. Extremely rare, one of two known (the other: Heritage, 8 Aug 2014, lot 23042 [realized $65,000]).

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Triton VII (13 January 2004), lot 346.