434, Lot: 23. Estimate $500. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.21 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Ephesos mint. Struck circa 301-295/4 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; ivy leaf in left field, monogram below throne. Newell 59 (dies LIV/100); Price 1874 (same dies as illustration); SNG München 542 (same dies). Good VF, toned. Well centered. Very rare, none in CoinArchives, one in Pella (BM [illustrated by Price]), two others listed by Newell (including the Munich piece), none in ANS Photofile.