CNG 109, Lot: 306. Estimate $300. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios I Soter. 162-150 BC. AR Hemidrachm (13mm, 1.88 g, 11h). Uncertain mint. Diademed head right within fillet border / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow in right hand, resting left hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; blundered legend, no control marks visible. Unpublished. VF, toned, granular surfaces. Unique.

From the MNL Collection, purchased from Oliver Hoover, August 2013.

The blundered legend and somewhat crude style suggest a barbarous issue, but such anomalous elements are known on official issues from various mints during this reign.