Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 205. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.36 g, 6h). Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 289-288 BC. Diademed and horned head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΔHMHTPIOY, Poseidon Pelagaios standing left, right foot on rock, holding trident in left hand; monograms to outer left and right. Newell 124 (dies CXXVII/263); SNG München 1050 (same obv. die); SNG Alpha Bank 952 (same obv. die); SNG Saroglos 903-5; Pozzi 960 (same obv. die). EF, lightly toned.