DEMETRIOS I SOTER AR DRACHM
SC 1735.3, HGC 9, 803a, About Very Fine, some horn silver, 16.6mm, 3.59 grams, Ekbatana mint, Struck 162 - 150 B.C.E.
Obverse: Diademed head of Demetrios I to right
Reverse: Apollo seated to left on omphalos, testing arrow and resting left hand on grounded bow, BAΣIΛEΩΣ downwards to right, ΔHMHTPIOY downwards to left, EΩTHPOΣ in exergue
A decent well struck portrait of Demetrios I, whose General Bacchius killed Judah the Maccabee of Hanukkah fame, in his campaign after the Judaeans had already achieved religious independence,
