Triton XX, Lot: 124. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 17.25 g, 11h). Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 291-290 BC. Diademed and horned head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΔHMHTPIOY, Poseidon Pelagaios seated left on rock, holding aphlaston in extended right hand and trident in left; monogram to inner left and right. Newell 112 (dies XCIX/189); McClean 3578. EF, lightly toned. Fine style. Extremely rare issue, only the McClean coin known to Newell, none in CoinArchives.

From the JMG Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Inventory 717907 (December 1999); Leu 71 (24 October 1997), lot 158; Leu 54 (28 April 1992), lot 90.