Triton XVII, Lot: 173. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 17.06 g, 11h). Uncertain mint. Struck circa 289-288 BC. Diademed and horned head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΔHMHTPIOY, Poseidon Pelagaios, nude, standing left, right foot propped on rock, holding trident in left hand, right arm resting on leg; to outer left, star above Δ; A to outer right. Newell 160 (obv. die CLXVI); SNG Alpha Bank 953; Meydancikkale 2585; Leu 30, lot 95 (same obv. die). EF, lightly toned, slight die shift on reverse. Rare.