421, Lot: 96. Estimate $300. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.30 g, 11h). 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; monogram within circle to left and below throne. Price 3551 corr. (monogram below throne); Hersh,
Tyrus 5, dies II/b-f; HGC 3, 1009b. VF, lightly toned, minor die rust o obverse, slight die shift on reverse. Very rare, six noted by Hersh (including the one in Pella), two in CoinArchives.
From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Superior (4 December 1997), lot 1368.