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Auction 25  20 Nov 2022
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Lot 96

Estimate: 3500 CHF
Price realized: 4200 CHF
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KINGS OF MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes, 306-283 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 25 mm, 17.07 g, 6 h), Tarsos, c. 298-295. Nike, blowing a trumpet and holding a stylis, alighting to left on a left-facing galley prow. Rev. BAΣI-ΛEΩΣ ΔHMHTΡIOΥ Poseidon, nude but for wreath of reeds and a chlamys wrapped around his left arm, striding left, hurling trident from his upraised right hand; to left, monogram of ΛΙ within a circle; in the right field, monogram of ΠΑΡ. Cf. Newell 33 (same monograms but on a stater). Sharply struck in high relief, attractively toned. Reverse struck slightly off-center, otherwise, extremely fine.
From a European collection, ex Gorny & Mosch 159, 8 October 2007, 121.
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