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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios I Soter. 162-150 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 16.84 g, 11h). Susa mint. Diademed head of Antiochos IV right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΔHM-HTPIOY, Apollo Delphios, nude, testing arrow in his right hand, left hand holding tip of bow set on ground to right, seated left on omphalos; monograms to outer right and in exergue. SC 1710; Le Rider, Suse –; HGC 9, 789 (same dies as illustration); CSE 1066 (same dies). VF, toned, a few marks. Extremely rare, possibly only the second known.
From the MNL Collection. Ex Jencek Historical Enterprise Inventory Y04016 (November 2012); W. K. Raymond Collection.
This must have been the first issue of tetradrachms struck by Demetrios I at Susa, and was apparently struck in urgent circumstances, as the mint reused a die of the previous king, Antiochos IV, rather than cut a new die with Demetrios' portrait. This obverse die was previously used for Antiochos on tetradrachms of SC 1531 type.
From the MNL Collection. Ex Jencek Historical Enterprise Inventory Y04016 (November 2012); W. K. Raymond Collection.
This must have been the first issue of tetradrachms struck by Demetrios I at Susa, and was apparently struck in urgent circumstances, as the mint reused a die of the previous king, Antiochos IV, rather than cut a new die with Demetrios' portrait. This obverse die was previously used for Antiochos on tetradrachms of SC 1531 type.