CNG 106, Lot: 226. Estimate $750. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. temp. Demetrios I Poliorketes – Antigonos II Gonatas. Circa 300-250 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.22 g, 3h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Uncertain mint in the Peloponnese (Argos?). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left on throne with Nikai on back; in left field, Athena Promachos advancing left; EY below throne. Price 759; Troxell, Peloponnesian Group I, Issue 3, dies A6/P– (unlisted rev. die). EF.

From the WN Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 82 (16 September 2009), lot 435.

Martin Price did not assign this issue to a particular mint, but Hyla Troxell suggested all the coins of her Group I were struck at the mint of Argos, while that city was under the control of a tyrant who was installed by Antigonos II Gonatas. However, the style and fabric of the coins of Group I are nearly identical to the issues of Demetrios I Poliorketes that Troxell and Price placed at Corinth around 300 BC.