366, Lot: 431. Estimate $150. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.19 g, 6h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Tyre mint. Struck circa 290-286 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; club-in-circle in left field, monogram below throne. Price 3541; Hersh,
Tyrus 31a–e (obv. die X). Good VF, attractively toned, die break on obverse (diagnostic for die).
From the Robert A. Weimer Collection.