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Triton XVII, Lot: 169. Estimate $1500.
Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 17.11 g, 7h). Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 289-288 BC. Diademed and horned head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΔHMHTPIOY, Poseidon Pelagaios, nude, standing left, right foot propped on rock, holding trident in left hand, right arm resting on leg; monograms to outer left and right. Newell 124 (obv. die CXXVIII); SNG Alpha Bank 952; SNG Ashmolean 3255; SNG München 1050; SNG Saroglos 904 (same obv. die); Sotheby Zurich & NFA (1993), lot 40 (same dies). Near EF, toned, underlying luster.


From the RAJ Collection, purchased in 2002 from F. Shore.