379, Lot: 164. Estimate $100. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of COMMAGENE. temp. Samos II to Mithradates I. Circa 140–70 BC. AR Drachm (16.5mm, 2.51 g, 12h). Imitating Seleukid king Demetrios I. Diademed head right / Cornucopia; control mark to low inner right. O. Hoover, “Notes on Some Imitations Drachms of Demetrius I Soter from Commagene” in
AJN 10, dies a24/p27, first example = CSE 555 (this coin); SC 1768.3i; HGC 9, 807. VF, toned, area of flat strike.
Ex Arthur A. Houghton Collection, 555.