Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 371. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.09 g, 5h). Chalkis mint. Struck circa 291-290 BC. Diademed and horned head right / Poseidon Pelagaios standing left, right foot on rock, holding trident; to outer left, Σ above dolphin downward. Newell 146 var. (monogram not Σ); SNG München -; SNG Alpha Bank -; SNG Saroglos -; Triton XII, lot 207 var. (same). Near EF, slight die shift on obverse. Very rare.