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375, Lot: 36. Estimate $300.
Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.07 g, 12h). In the types of Alexander III. Tyre mint. Struck circa 301/0-295/4 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, club left in circle; monogram below throne. Hersh, Tyrus 42; Newell 29. VF, struck from a worn obverse die. Very rare, featuring a misspelling of the retrograde BAIΣIΛEΩΣ.


From the Dennis Rider Collection of the Coins of Tyre.