SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios I Soter. 162-150 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29.5mm, 16.70 g, 1h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Struck circa 161-150 BC. Good VF.Triton XXVII Greek, Coin-in-Hand Video, Silver Sold For $ 3 750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios I Soter. 162-150 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29.5mm, 16.70 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 ΔHMHTPI[OY ΣΩT]HPOΣ, 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; HGC 9, 799; CSE 991 (also overstruck on Timarchos). Iridescent tone, area of roughness on obverse, minor double strike on reverse. Overstruck on an issue of Timarchos (HGC 9, 761), with his helmet visible on the reverse, and the forepart of the horses and spears of the Dioskouroi visible on the obverse. Good VF. Very rare. |