Monogram on Rock

158, Lot: 33. Estimate $750. Sold for $480. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.20 g, 7h). Pella mint. Struck circa 289-288 BC. Diademed and horned head right / Poseidon standing left, foot on rock, holding trident; monogram to outer left, K on rock. Newell 89 var. corr. (dies LXXVIII/145). VF, struck a little weakly.

The rocks on these tetradrachms are typically worn as they are a high point on the surface. It is possible, therefore, that there are controls marks on others in this series. For instance, this particular coin is a die match for a specimen of Newell 89, but that piece is too worn to reveal the control on the rock.