Ex Abramowitz Family Collection

CNG 109, Lot: 301. Estimate $7500. Sold for $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios I Soter. 162-150 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.56 g, 1h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Struck circa 161-150 BC. Jugate heads right of Demetrios, wearing diadem, and Laodike, wearing stephanos, within fillet border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΔHMHTPIOY ΣΩTP[OΣ], Tyche, fully clothed, holding scepter in extended left hand and cradling cornucopia in right arm, seated left on throne supported by tritoness right; monogram and palm frond to outer left. SC 1686; CSE 991; HGC 9, 799. Good VF, toned, slight granularity, minor metal flaws and slightly off center on reverse. Very rare.

From the MNL Collection, purchased from Frank Kovacs, November 2011. Ex G. Hirsch 275 (22 September 2011), lot 4008; Abramowitz Family Collection (Superior Galleries, 8 December 1993), lot 341; Sotheby’s (18 July 1985), lot 355; Auctiones AG 13 (23 June 1983), lot 359.