CNG 96, Lot: 69. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.08 g, 7h). Pella mint. Struck circa 292-291 BC. Diademed and horned head right / Poseidon Pelagaios seated left on rock, holding aplustre and trident; monogram on rock and to outer right. Newell 75 (obv. die LXIII). VF, toned.

The portrait series of Demetrios Poliorketes was the first to feature a lifetime portrait on European coins.