Description
Seleukid Empire.
Demetrios III (98-87 BC).
Silver Tetradrachm, mint of Damaskos, dated SE 224 (89/8 BC).
Obverse: Diademed head of Demetrios facing right.
Reverse: ΒAΣΙΛEΩΣ ΔHMHTPIOV ΦEOV ΦIΛOΠΛTOPOΣ ΣΩTHPOΣ, cult statue of Atargatis standing, holding flower in left hand and with a barley stalk rising from each shoulder, N above monogram in outer left field, [ΔKε (date) in exergue, [all within a laurel wreath].
(SC 2451.11; HGC 9, 1305; DCA 304).
Good Very Fine. Some crystallisation.
15.87g.
