CNG 100, Lot: 1331. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 16.91 g, 1h). Tarsos mint. Struck circa 298-295 BC. Nike, blowing trumpet and holding stylis, standing left on prow of galley left / Poseidon Pelagaios standing left, preparing to throw trident; monogram to left and right. Cf. Newell 33 (stater with same control marks); Seleucus I Hoard 1037–41 var. (control marks reversed). Near EF, toned, obverse a little off center, minor porosity on reverse. Very rare issue.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection, purchased from Maison Platt, September 1980.