101, Lot: 22. Estimate $750. Sold for $825. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-285 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 17.04 gm). Sikyon-Demetrias mint(?). Struck after circa 290 BC. Diademed and horned head of Demetrios right / Poseidon standing left, resting foot on rock, holding trident; monograms in fields. Newell 159; cf. AMNG III 5; SNG Alpha Bank -; SNG München -; McClean 3581 var. (monogram in left field). Nice VF, exceptional portrait.