Elegant Die Workmanship

782029.

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KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 17.25 g, 1h). Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 289-288 BC. Diademed and horned head right / BASILEWS DHMHTRIOU, Poseidon Pelagaios standing left, right foot on rock, holding trident in left hand; monograms to inner left and outer right. Newell 123 (dies CXXIV/243); Pozzi 959 = Pozzi (Boutin) 2012 (same dies); SNG Berry 340 (same obv. die). EF, toned.

From the Semon Lipcer Collection. Ex Margaretha Ley Collection (Lanz 70, 21 November 1994), lot 63.