Ancient and Medieval Coins Canada

Auction 3  –  24 July 2021

Ancient and Medieval Coins Canada, Auction 3

Ancient and Medieval Coins

Sa, 24.07.2021, from 6:00 PM CEST
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Description

★ 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.

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