Triton XVII, Lot: 167. Estimate $2000. Sold for $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.05 g, 11h). Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 291-290 BC. Diademed and horned head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΔHMHTPIOY, Poseidon Pelagaios seated left on rock, holding aphlaston in extended right hand and trident in left; monogram to inner left and right. Newell 110–2 var. (dies XCIX/–, unlisted variety with this inner right monogram); Auctiones 18, lot 617; Münzen und Medaillen AG 72, lot 577; Sotheby Zurich & NFA (1993), lot 39. EF, lightly toned. Extremely rare variety.