Ex Athena Fund

Triton XIX, Lot: 103. Estimate $3000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 1714 g, 6h). Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 291-290 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 CXXVIII/268); SNG Saroglos 904 (same obv. die); Athena Fund I 40 (this coin). EF, toned. Fine style.

From the Leonidion Collection. Ex Manhattan I (5 January 2010), lot 49; W.B. and R.E. Montgomery Collection; Leu 86 (5 May 2003), lot 365; Athena Fund (Part 1, Sotheby’s Zurich, 26 October 1993), lot 40.