Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 827. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.11 g, 12h). Chalkis mint. Struck circa 290-287 BC. Diademed and horned head right / BASILEWS DHMHTRIOU, Poseidon Pelagaios standing left, right foot on rock, holding trident in left hand; K to outer left, grape bunch to outer right. Newell 150 (obv. die CLIV); SNG München -; SNG Alpha Bank 953 (same obv. die); SNG Berry -; Meydancikkale 2585 (same dies). EF. ($1500)