275, Lot: 37. Estimate $150. Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios I Soter. 162-150 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.41 g, 12h). Antioch mint. Dated SE 162 (AD 151/0 BC). Diademed head right within wreath / Tyche, holding scepter and cornucopia, seated left on throne supported by tritoness right; monograms to outer left, BΞP (date) in exergue. SC 1641.8h; HGC 9, 798; DCA 109. Near EF, somewhat off center.

For another example struck from the same dies and with the controls clear, see Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 135, lot 28.