Unique Variety in the Name of Demetrios I

CNG 100, Lot: 55. Estimate $7500. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AV Stater (19mm, 8.53 g, 12h). In the types of Alexander III. Tarsos mint. Struck circa 298-295 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with serpent / BA-ΣIΛEΩΣ ΔHMHTPIOY, Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand and cradling stylis in left arm; Z below left wing, monogram in circle below right wing. Newell 35 var. (obv. die H; control marks on opposite sides); otherwise unpublished. Good VF, trace deposits on reverse. Apparently unique variety in a very rare series in the name of Demetrios.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Robert Weimer Collection (Triton IV, 5 December 2000), lot 174.