Classical Numismatic Group, LLC
Auction 117 19-20 May 2021
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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios I Soter. 162-150 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30.5mm, 14.75 g, 1h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Undated issue, struck circa 162–155/4 BC. Diademed head right within laurel wreath / Tyche, fully clothed, holding scepter and cradling cornucopia, seated left on throne supported by tritoness right; monogram to outer left. SC 1640.1a; SMA 99; HGC 9, 797b. Toned, traces of find patina, a few marks. VF. Low weight specimen.
From the MNL Collection, purchased from Frank Kovacs, June 2011.
Examples that are known to be this light are all fourrées, but the present coin is clearly not a fourrée. One wonders whether the light weight is simply a mint error, or was this coin mistakenly overstruck on an a Seleukid tetradrachm that had been struck on the Phoenician standard?
From the MNL Collection, purchased from Frank Kovacs, June 2011.
Examples that are known to be this light are all fourrées, but the present coin is clearly not a fourrée. One wonders whether the light weight is simply a mint error, or was this coin mistakenly overstruck on an a Seleukid tetradrachm that had been struck on the Phoenician standard?