Hess-Divo
Auction 339 22 Oct 2020
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GREEK COINS. KINGDOM OF MACEDONIA.
DEMETRIUS POLIORCETES, king 306-283 BC. Tetradrachm, Amphipolis, about 290-289. AR 16.98 g. Head of Demetrius r., wearing royal diadem and bull's horn on forehead. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ - ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ Poseidon, nude and bearded, standing l., leaning forwards, r. foot placed on rock, holding trident with his l. hand, his r. arm resting on his r. thigh; in inner l. and r. field, two monograms. Newell, Demetrius 109, CV/201 (this specimen mentioned); SNG Oxford 3253.
Scarce. Old cabinet tone. Extremely fine
Provenance: Auction J. Hirsch, Munich XXXI (1912), 274.
DEMETRIUS POLIORCETES, king 306-283 BC. Tetradrachm, Amphipolis, about 290-289. AR 16.98 g. Head of Demetrius r., wearing royal diadem and bull's horn on forehead. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ - ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ Poseidon, nude and bearded, standing l., leaning forwards, r. foot placed on rock, holding trident with his l. hand, his r. arm resting on his r. thigh; in inner l. and r. field, two monograms. Newell, Demetrius 109, CV/201 (this specimen mentioned); SNG Oxford 3253.
Scarce. Old cabinet tone. Extremely fine
Provenance: Auction J. Hirsch, Munich XXXI (1912), 274.