CNG 103, Lot: 139. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 17.15 g, 11h). Chalkis mint. Struck circa 290-287 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; K to outer left, grape bunch to outer right. Newell 150 (obv. die CLVII). EF, attractive light toning, underlying luster, faint scratch on obverse.
Ex Gemini III (9 January 2007), lot 107.