COMMAGENE. Uncertain mint. Imitating the types of Demetrios I, 162-150 BC. Drachm (Silver, 17 mm, 1.86 g, 11 h), imitating Demetrios I but in the name of "Seleukos" (IV?), struck in Commagene, time of Mithradates I, c. 96-70. Diademed head of Demetrios I to right. Rev. BACIΛΕω CΕΛΕΥΚΟ Cornucopiae. HGC 9, 81. SC 1773. Darkly toned and typically crude, as issued. Grainy surfaces, otherwise, very fine.

This interesting drachm belongs to a fairly common series of Commagenian imitations of the Seleukid king Demetrios I (152-145 BC), normally attributed to the reigns of either Samos II Theosebes Dikaios (130-109) or Mithradates I Kallinikos (96-70), but in this case probably struck during the reign of the latter. It is characterized by a barbarous portrait of the Seleukid king and a cornucopiae reverse. Here, however, instead of naming Demetrios, we have a legend naming a king Seleukos!