Rare Alexandrine Issue in the Name of Demetrios

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 363. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.16 g, 1h). Tyre mint. Struck circa 290-286 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; club in circle in left field, monogram in circle below throne. Newell 29 (dies XXXIV/68); Hersh, Tyrus 42 (obv. die XVI). VF, minor marks on obverse. Rare Alexandrine issue in the name of Demetrios.