KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-285 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.82 gm, 5h). Uncertain mint in Macedon. Struck circa 290 BC. Diademed and horned head right /
BASILEWS DHMHTRI[OU], Poseidon seated left, holding aphlaston in outstretched right hand, trident in left; Phrygian helmet in inner left field. Newell 137 (reverse die 277); cf. AMNG III 13; SNG Alpha Bank -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG Ashmolean -; Boston MFA 707 (same reverse die). Good VF, toned, minor obverse die break, hairline flan crack. Very rare issue.
Ex Kölner Münzkabinett 4 (12 December 1969), lot 17.
