Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society, 1917, Vol. 17 The Sale Cataloguer remarks on the unusual style of the portrait. It is, however, very like the head selected by imhoof-blumer13 for enlargement as a specially fine portrait of Demetrius. The type, it may be observed, shows an approximation to the head of Seleucus I, I4 and is indeed nearer to that than to the ordinary head of Demetrius, which is shown, for instance, on the coin illustrated on pi. I. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.