Triton XIV, Lot: 95. Estimate $5000. Sold for $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.46 g, 1h). 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; monogram to outer left and outer right. Newell 124 (dies CXXVII/263 – this coin cited and illustrated [incorrect weight listed]); SNG München 1050 (same obv. die); SNG Saroglos 903-5; SNG Alpha Bank 952 (same obv. die). Superb EF, old collection toning.

Ex Naville IV (17 June 1922), lot 471; L.G. Schlesinger y Guzman Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 20 July 1914), lot 68.