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LOT 2675
Seleukid Empire, Demetrios I Soter AR Drachm. Dated SE 161 (152/1 BC). Antioch on the Orontes mint.
Diademed head to right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ, cornucopia; to inner right, two monograms above AΞP (date). SC 1642.3b; DCA2 50; HGC 9, 806. Very Fine.(3.49gr, 18mm, 1h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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