Choice Demetrios in the Name of Alexander

CNG 111, Lot: 124. Estimate $750. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.96 g, 6h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Tyre mint. Struck circa 290-286 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in left field and below throne. Price 3534; Hersh, Tyrus 17 (dies VII/- [unlisted rev. die]). EF, lightly toned.

From the Belgica Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 81 (20 May 2009), lot 362.