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Lot 197

Starting price: 300 CHF
Price realized: 800 CHF
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KINGS OF MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes, 306-283 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 27 mm, 16.67 g, 10 h), Chalkis, 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 in 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. Newell 150 (obverse die CLVII). SNG Alpha Bank 953. A beautiful, toned coin with a superbly noble portrait of Demetrios of exceptionally fine style. Some very minor marks on the obverse, otherwise, about extremely fine.

From the Vineyard Collection, acquired in 1998.
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