393, Lot: 19. Estimate $500. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.88 g, 12h). Chalkis mint. Struck circa 291-290 BC. Diademed and horned head right / Poseidon Pelagaios standing left, right foot on rock, holding trident; monogram in circle to outer left. Newell 147 var. (obv. die CL; club below monogram); HGC 3.1, 1014f. VF, lightly toned. Rare without club on reverse.

From the Dr. Lawrence D. Sporty Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 860219 (December 2009); Freeman & Sear 2 (31 January 1996), lot 365.