Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 818. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.10 g, 1h). Pella mint. Struck circa 293-292 BC. Nike alighting atop prow of galley left, blowing trumpet she holds in her right hand, and holding stylis in her left / BAS-ILE-WS DHMHTRIOU, Poseidon Pelagaios, nude, standing left, throwing trident held in his right hand, mantle over his left arm; D to left; monogram to right. Newell 72 (obv. die LX); SNG München -; SNG Alpha Bank -; SNG Berry -. EF, obverse struck off-center. ($1500)