Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 820. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.26 g, 10h). Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 293-292 BC. Nike alighting atop prow of galley left, blowing trumpet she holds in her right hand, and holding stylis in her left / BAS-ILEW-S DHMHTRIOU, Poseidon Pelagaios, nude, standing left, throwing trident held in his right hand, mantle over his left arm; Z to left, HP monogram to right. Newell 97; SNG München -; SNG Alpha Bank -; SNG Berry 346 (same dies). Near EF. Struck from fine style dies. ($2000)