Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 181. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $3600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.16 gm, 2h). Pella mint. Struck circa 294-293 BC. Nike alighting atop prow of galley left, blowing trumpet she holds in her right hand, and holding stylis in her left / BA-SILEW-S DHMHTRIOU, Poseidon, naked but for chlamys draped over his left arm, advancing left, brandishing trident in his right hand; monogram to left; to right, dolphin above star. Newell 68 (obverse die LVII); cf. AMNG III 4; SNG Alpha Bank -; SNG München 1042 var. (no dolphin; same obverse die). Superb EF, lightly toned. ($3000)