Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 182. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.17 gm, 5h). Amphipolis 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-SILE-WS DHMHTRIOU, Poseidon, naked but for chlamys draped over his left arm, advancing left, brandishing trident in his right hand; tripod to left; to right, I above ME monogram. Newell 94 (obv. die LXXXIV [not listed]); cf. AMNG III 4; SNG Alpha Bank -; SNG München -. Superb EF. ($2000)

From the Ronald Cohen Collection.