Choice Demetrios in the Name of Alexander

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 362. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $1310. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.96 g, 6h). Tyre mint. Struck in the name of Alexander III, circa 301-286 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in left field and below throne. Hersh, Tyrus 17 (obv. die VII); Price 3534. EF. Well centered and struck.