20220629

GREEK/SELEUCID; Imitation of Demetrios I Drachm from Commagene, First Century BCE

AR imitation drachm 16.5 mm 0.66 g 8h

Hoover, AJN 10, pp. 91-93, Series IV A (R3)

SC 1774

O: diad. Hd of ruler r, dotted border

R: barbarous inscription, cornucopia, no controls.

 

Cf. Oliver D. Hoover “Notes On Some Imitation Drachms Of Demetrius I Soter From Commagene” AJN 10 (1998), pp. 71-94.


Ex: W. Esty

Ex: Agora Auctions 67 (20-06-2017) lot 83

 

20220616

GREEK/SELEUCID; possible Co-regency period of Seleukos I & Antiochos I BCE 294-281


 AR Drachm; 3.91 g 18 mm, 1h, Uncertain Mint 16 in Drangiana or W. Arachosia

SC 246.1b

O: Herakles bust r.

R: Zeus std on low throne with eagle and sceptre, monograms to left field and under throne, inscription beginning in ex and wrapping around the right side field reading BAΣΙΛΕΩΣANTIOXOY