Tetradrachm of Demetrios I., hellenistic, ca. 200 - 185 B.C. · Eastern Mediterranean · ID: 3046909
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Size
D: 3,15 cm
D: 1.2 inch
Description
silver, bust of Demetrios wearing elephant-skin headdress (evoking Alexander the Great), symbol of his conquests in India, which greatly expanded the Hellenistic and Graeco-Roman realm; reverse side: naked Herakles crowning himself, holds club and lionskin
The object Tetradrachm of Demetrios I., hellenistic, ca. 200 - 185 B.C. with the object ID 3046909 was last part of the auction Voyage Tribal Art - Live Online Auction at May 23, 2020 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 91.
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