Watch List notes:

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes, 306-283 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 27.5mm, 17.27 g 12), Chalkis, struck circa 290-287. Diademed head of Demetrios to right, wearing bull's horn above his forehead. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ Poseidon, nude, standing to left, his right foot on a rock, holding a trident with his left hand and resting his right on his right thigh; in outer field to left, Κ; in outer field to right, bunch of grapes. Meydancikkale 2585. Newell 150 (obverse die CLVII). A beautiful, toned coin with a superbly noble portrait of Demetrios of exceptionally fine style. Some very minor marks, otherwise, about extremely fine.


From the collection of the MoneyMuseum in Zürich, ex Leu 91, 10 May 2004, 127.