452, Lot: 421. Estimate $300. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios III Eukairos. 97/6-88/7 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 16.01 g, 12h). Damaskos mint. Dated SE 216 (97/6 BC). Diademed head right / Cult statue of Atargatis standing facing, arms extended, holding flower in left hand, barley stalk rising from each shoulder; two monograms to outer left, CIε (date) and monogram in exergue; all within wreath. SC 2450.1; HHV 6 (A1/P4); HGC 9, 1305; DCA 303. Dark find patina. VF.

From the John L. Cowan Collection, purchased from London Ancient Coins Ltd., 31 October 2015.