Superb Demetrios I Poliorketes Tetradrachm

Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 433. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $5250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.10 g, 1h). Pella mint. Struck circa 300-295 BC. Nike standing left on prow of galley left, blowing trumpet and cradling stylis in her left arm / Poseidon Pelagaios standing left, preparing to throw trident; Δ to left, monogram to right. Newell 72 (obv. die LX); SNG München -; SNG Alpha Bank -. Superb EF.

Ex Triton IX (10 January 2006), lot 818.