Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 490. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.23 g, 10h). Demetrias mint. Struck circa 290-289 BC. Diademed and horned head right with elderly features / Poseidon standing left, foot on rock, holding trident; no control marks(?). Cf. Newell 144 (obv. die CXLIV). EF. Choice portrait of Demetrios.

This coin is missing the Demetrias mint monogram that is typically placed between the rock and trident on all tetradrachms.