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Auction XXIII  24-25 Mar 2022
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Lot 186

Estimate: 7500 GBP
Price realized: 6000 GBP
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Kingdom of Macedon, Demetrios I Poliorketes AR Tetradrachm. Amphipolis, circa 289-288 BC. Diademed and horned head to right / Poseidon, nude, standing to left, right foot propped on rock, holding trident and resting on leg; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ to right, ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ to left, monograms to outer left and right. Newell 124, pl. XIII, 7 (this coin); SNG Alpha Bank 952 (this obv. die); HGC 3.1, 1014b. 16.48g, 29mm, 1h.

Extremely Fine; beautiful old cabinet tone.

This coin published in E.T. Newell, The Coinage of Demetrius Poliorcetes (London, 1927);
Ex Sheikh Saud bin Mohammed al-Thani Collection;
Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Triton XIV, 4 January 2011, lot 95;
Ex Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger, Auction 167, 26 September 1990, lot 308;
Ex Naville Numismatics, Auction IV, 17 June 1922, lot 471;
Ex Collection of L.G. Schlesinger Y. Guzman, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 20 July 1914, lot 68.
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