Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 823. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.37 g, 8h). Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 289-288 BC. Diademed and horned head right / BASILEWS DHMHTRIOU, Poseidon Pelagaios standing left, right foot on rock, holding trident in left hand; monograms to outer left and right. Newell 124 (obv. die CXXII); SNG München 1050; SNG Alpha Bank 952. Good VF, toned, oval flan. ($1500)

From the John F. Sullivan Collection.