ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
Jugate heads of Demetrius diademed and Laodice draped and wearing stephane right.
ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ (Greek) Tyche seated left, throne supported by winged tritoness, holding scepter and cornucopia. In outside left field, H and palm. Border of dots.
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:
AuthorityIdentifies the issuing power. The authority can be "pretended" when the name or the portrait of X is on the coin but he/she was not the issuing power. It can also be "uncertain" when there is no mention of X on the coin but he/she was the issuing power according to the historical sources:
FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 161 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 150 BCE
hellenistic periodTime period of the numismatic object.
Physical description
MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Silver
DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: tetradrachm
FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 164 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 161 BCE
Hellenistic 323-30 BCperiodTime period of the numismatic object.
Physical description
DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.ᵖ:
"Cet exemplaire est également surfrappé sur un tétradrachme de Timarque: on voit au droit le visage de ce dernier et une partie de la légende BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ME[ΓAΛOY]"
References
^Le Rider, Georges (1965), Suse sous les Séleucides et les Parthes. Les trouvailles monétaires et l'histoire de la ville, Paris, Paul Geuthner, 491 p., 74 pl.
abHougton, Arthur (1983), Coins of the Seleucid Empire from the collection of Arthur Houghton, Ancient Coins in North American Collections 4, New York, xiv, 122 p., 2 fold. charts, 77 pls.
abHoughton, Arthur - Lorber, Catharine C. - Hoover, Oliver D. (2008), Seleucid coins : a comprehensive catalogue. Part 2, Seleucus IV through Antiochus XIII, 2 v., New York - Lancaster - London, (xxx), 120 p. of plates : ill., maps, tables
abHoover, Oliver D. (2009), Handbook of ancient Syrian coins : royal and civic issues, fourth to first centuries BC, The Handbook of Greek Coinage 9, Lancaster, lxix, 332 p.
