| Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXVII | Auction date: 9 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 332 Price realized: 3,750 USD (Approx. 3,435 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: 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. This tetradrachm is from the earliest issue of Demetrios I at Seleukia, which celebrates his marriage to Laodike. As noted in SC, the first of these coins were overstruck on tetradrachms of Timarchos, who had been recently defeated by Demetrios. Estimate: 3000 USD |  |
