Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 822. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.31 g, 11h). Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 289-288 BC. Diademed and horned head right / [B]ASILEW[S] DHMHTRIOU, Poseidon Pelagaios standing left, right foot on rock, holding trident in left hand; monograms to outer left and right. Newell 121 (obv. die CXXI); SNG München -; SNG Alpha Bank -; SNG Berry 339. Good VF, toned, a couple light marks. High relief portrait. ($1500)