Triton XVIII, Lot: 480. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.92 g, 10h). Amphipolis 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; monograms to outer left and right. Newell 124 (dies CXVIII/246); Pozzi 963 var. (right side monogram; same obv. die); CNG E-318, lot 97; CNG 73, lots 162–3. EF, bright surfaces. Rare with this right field monogram.