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Triton XIX Sessions 3 & 4 - Adams Collection  6 January 2016
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Lot 2071

Estimate: 10 000 USD
Price realized: 18 000 USD
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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios I Soter. 162-150 BC. AV Stater (17mm, 8.59 g, 1h). Uncertain mint in Cilicia or northern Syria. Struck circa 152/1 BC. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΔHMHTPIOY ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ, cornucopia; no control marks. SC 1623 (this coin illustrated); HGC 9, 784 (this coin illustrated). Near EF, lustrous, flan flaw on obverse. Extremely rare, one of two known (the other: Heritage, 8 Aug 2014, lot 23042 [realized $65,000]).


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Triton VII (13 January 2004), lot 346.
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