CNG 106, Lot: 214. Estimate $500. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.22 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Corinth mint. Struck circa 304/3-290 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, dolphin swimming downward; below throne, NO below strut. Price 858 (uncertain Greece or Macedon); Newell –; HGC 3.1, 1009 var. (unlisted mint). EF, lightly toned, underlying luster, minor obverse die rust.
From the Belgica Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 921683 (March 2012); Triton IX (10 January 2006), lot 771; Seleucus I Hoard (CH X, 265).