149, Lot: 42. Estimate $150. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Drachm (26mm, 16.91 g). Salamis mint. Struck circa 300-295 BC. Nike alighting atop prow of galley left, blowing trumpet and holding stylis / Poseidon Pelagaios, nude, standing left, throwing trident; monograms in left and right fields. Newell 15, pl. II, 2. Fine, test cut.
From the K. L. Chapman Collection (with his ticket; purchased from Spink, January 1962, for 21/10/-, seemingly a pretty hefty sum in those days!).