418, Lot: 139. Estimate $400. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 16.84 g, 11h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Miletos mint. Struck circa 295/4 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in circle in left field, labrys below throne. Newell 48 (unlisted dies); Price 2147 corr. (monogram); ADM I Series XIII. Good VF, toned, a couple light marks, lamination on obverse. Rare issue as a tetradrachm, only three in Pella (including the one coin listed in ADM and Newell), eight in CoinArchives (including the present coin).

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Noble 87 (9 April 2008), lot 4211; Ian Starkey Collection; Lanz 109 (27 May 2002), lot 156.