Triton XIX, Lot: 104. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 17.48 g, 4h). 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); Triton XVIII, lot 480 (same obv. die). Good VF, attractively toned.
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 4 (27 February 1991), lot 109.