Watch List notes:

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 16.95 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Miletos mint. Struck circa 295/4 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; õ in left field, labrys below throne. Newell 48 (unlisted dies); Price 2147 corr. (monogram); ADM I Series XIII. Attractive old collection tone. Good VF. Well centered on a broad flan. Rare issue as a tetradrachm, only three in Pella (including the one coin listed in ADM and Newell), eight in CoinArchives.


From the San Vicente Collection, purchased from Dr. Arnold Saslow, September 2006.