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134, Lot: 121. Estimate $150.
Sold for $106. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios I Soter. 162-150 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 4.11 g, 12h). Ekbatana mint. Struck circa 152-150 BC. Diademed head right; eight-pointed star and K behind / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos. A. Houghton, "The Chronology of the Later Coinage of Demetrius I at Ecbatana" in "Four Seleucid Notes," AJN 5-6 (1993-94), 11 = Houghton 1248 (this coin); SNG Spaer -; Le Rider, Suse -; Babelon -; BMC -. EF, a couple minor surface flaws on obverse, reverse a bit soft. Rare.

Ex Triton V (15 January 2002), lot 1497; Arthur Houghton Collection, 1248.