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325, Lot: 263. Estimate $300.
Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Demetrios I Soter. 162-150 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33mm, 16.86 g, 1h). Antioch mint. Struck circa 162-155/4 BC. Diademed head right, wearing slight beard (barely visible due to wear), within wreath / Tyche, nude to waist, holding baton and cornucopia, seated left on backless throne decorated with winged Tritoness; monogram to outer left. SC 1636; HGC 9, 796. VF, toned, die breaks and flaws. Rare issue with slightly bearded portrait.


This rare bearded portrait type is known on a short series of tetradrachms struck at Antioch (SC 1636-7) and Tarsos (SC 1614). It is thought that the beard may be associated with Demetrios’ campaign in the east against Timarchos (see SC Part II, p. 165).