Triton XVII, Lot: 162. Estimate $500. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.16 g, 12h). Tyre mint. Struck circa 301/0-295/4 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / [BAΣIΛEΩΣ (retrograde)] ΔHMHTPIOY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, monogram above club. Newell 27 corr. (dies XXXIII/65; royal title not noted); Hersh, Tyrus 41 corr. (dies XV/a-b; monogram, royal title not noted); SNG München –; SNG Alpha Bank 943 (same dies, showing royal title); SNG Saroglos –. VF, toned, softly struck on obverse. Very rare.

From the RAJ Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 159584 (December 2005).