Rare and Artistic Issue

201, Lot: 39. Estimate $750. Sold for $1455. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 19.91 g, 9h). Thebes mint. Struck circa 289-287 BC. Diademed and horned head of Demetrios right / Poseidon standing left, right foot on rock, holding trident; monogram to lower right. Newell 141 var. (control, but cf. 142 [hemidrachm]); CNG 61, lot 489 (same dies). VF, toned. Rare. Fine style and one of the most naturalistic portraits of Demetrios.