SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios I Soter. 162-150 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.40 g, 12h). Mallos mint. Good VF.

CNG Feature Auction 133
Lot: 381. Estimated: $ 3 000

Greek, 12h, Coin-in-Hand Video, Silver

Sold For $ 3 500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios I Soter. 162-150 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.40 g, 12h). Mallos mint. Diademed head right; M to left / Cult figure of Athena Magarsia standing facing, wearing aegis, holding spear; rosettes over shoulders, monograms to outer left and to outer right. SC 1618–9 var. (portrait type, unlisted monograms); Houghton, Mallus –; HGC 9, 801. Toned. Good VF. Apparently unique with these monograms.

According to A. Houghton, C. Lorber, and O. Hoover in SC, Mallos issued its first Seleukid coinage for Demetrios I, although the dating is uncertain. Two portrait types are represented: an early “lean” type (SC 1618), and a “fleshy” later type (SC 1619). The portrait here, though, does not resemble either of these, and more like the portraits found on subsequent kings’ issues at Mallos. This suggests that the present coin is likely the latest struck there under Demetrios Soter. The unusual reverse “show[s] a representation of the syncretic goddess Athena Magarsia, standing in rigid frontality on a basis with her arms outstretched in the manner of many cult figures of Anatolian and North Syrian origin; the rosettes to either side appear to be drawn from iconography associated with the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar (Astarte).”

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