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CNG 96, Lot: 65. Estimate $300.
Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 4.29 g, 11h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Miletos mint. Struck circa 295/4 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in left field, labrys below throne. Newell 49; Price 2148 corr. (monogram); ADM I Series XIII. Good VF, toned, a little die wear on obverse.


This series of Alexander type coinage, comprising staters, tetradrachms, and drachms, is linked by its control marks to the first issue of Demetrios’ new coinage at Miletos (Newell 50).