Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 825. Estimate $750. Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006. Sold For $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.12 g, 7h). Thebes mint. Struck circa 290 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. Cf. Newell 139 (Tetradrachm); SNG München -; SNG Alpha Bank -; SNG Berry -. VF, toned, light porosity. Apparently unique. ($750)
From the Robert Weimer Collection.Hemidrachms of this type are known at Thebes, but all published examples have a slightly different monogram (Newell 140).