Triton XVII, Lot: 171. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.05 g, 6h). Uncertain mint in Macedon. 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; to inner left, Phrygian helmet left. Newell 136 (unlisted dies); Meydancikkale 2583 var. (position of legend, same obv. die); Münzen und Medaillen AG 53, lot 64 = Münzen und Medaillen AG 76, lot 698 (same obv. die). EF, darkly toned, die break on reverse. Rare.