420, Lot: 123. Estimate $200. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 16.94 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Tyre mint. Struck circa 301/0-295/4 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monograms in left field and below throne. Price 3542 corr. (monograms); Hersh,
Tyrus 12a–b (same dies). VF, lightly toned, double struck on obverse. Very rare, two noted by Hersh (including the one in Pella), none in CoinArchives (the one attributed as Price 3542 is an imitation).
From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Triton XII (6 January 2009), lot 1197 (part of).