★ Rare and superb ★
SELEUKID KINGDOM: Demetrios I Soter (162-150 BCE) AE14, denomination D (1/2 unit), issued 152-151. Tyre, 2.34g, 14mm.
Obv: Diademed head of Demetrios I right
Rev: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ, palm tree; across field, date (Σ-P).
SC 1676; HGC 9, 855.
A superb example of this rare, tiny coin.
From the Severus Alexander collection; ex JAZ Numismatics
Issued near the end of Demetrios’s reign, while Alexander Balas was being promoted as his rival by Heracleides, a surviving brother of the defeated rebel Timarchus, and the Roman senate.