417, Lot: 112. Estimate $150. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.11 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Salamis mint. Struck circa 306-300 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; ΠE monogram in left field, ΔI below throne. Newell 2 (obv. die I); Price 3176; HGC 3, 1009a. VF, toned, light roughness, a little off center. Rare, ten in Pella, four in CoinArchives.
From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, 18 January 2002.